There is now pocketsphinx in 100% javascript

[willemmulder]

I just came across pocketsphinx in 100% javascript! See this repository: https://github.com/syl22-00/pocketsphinx.js.

Would it be an idea to use that instead of the c-version: it cuts down on dependencies and might increase usability and ease-of-use tremendously

[moneppo]

Nifty! Part of the purpose of this project was eventually to get speech
recognition support on lower-end hardware, e.g. Raspberry Pi. Do we think
an emscripten implementation would have good enough performance on that
kind of hardware?

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Willem Mulder notifications@github.com
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I just came across pocketsphinx in 100% javascript! See this repository:
https://github.com/syl22-00/pocketsphinx.js.

Would it be an idea to use that instead of the c-version: it cuts down on
dependencies and might increase usability and ease-of-use tremendously

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[willemmulder]

Emscripten is said to have 70% of native performance, which is pretty nice. Also, it prevents talking from Nodejs to Sphynx and back, so there's some gain there.

By the way: there's notes about performance on the wiki page: https://github.com/syl22-00/pocketsphinx.js#8-notes-about-speech-recognition-and-performance but don't get confused when it says "it has the same performance as other compiled versions"; the wiki is talking about performance as in 'how good is it in recognizing text' not 'how fast is it'.

[moneppo]

Yea, I read that. 70% seems pretty good! Emscripten is some black magic.

I may still keep node-pocketsphinx up - we have some improvements in the
pipe. However I will add a link to this project so people can make good
decisions.

Thanks for the link!

On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Willem Mulder notifications@github.com
wrote:

Emscripten is said to have 70% of native performance, which is pretty
nice. Also, it prevents talking from Nodejs to Sphynx and back, so there's
some gain there.

By the way: there's notes about performance on the wiki page:
https://github.com/syl22-00/pocketsphinx.js#8-notes-about-speech-recognition-and-performance
but don't get confused when it says "it has the same performance as other
compiled versions"; the wiki is talking about performance as in 'how good
is it in recognizing text' not 'how fast is it'.

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[willemmulder]

Sure! And you thanks for node-pocketsphinx :-)