[Olympus developers 235]: Re: Problems with VAD

[José David Lopes]

Alex,

Thanks for your quick answer!

What do you mean by end-pointers? Is it the run mode configuration? I've 
been looking at the documentation and it is not clear to me what these 
end-pointers are.

Jose

Em 08-06-2010 15:31, Alex Rudnicky escreveu:
> Jose,
>
> There are actually three different end-pointers in Olympus; these are selectable in (I believe) the configuration for the Audio server. You might try experimenting with alternate ones. Also, it might be worth a try to modify the end-pointing sensitivity parameters.
>
> Alex
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-developers-bounces at mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu [mailto:olympus-developers-bounces at mailman.srv.cs.cmu.edu] On Behalf Of José David Lopes
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 6:56 AM
> To: olympus-developers at cs.cmu.edu
> Subject: [Olympus developers 233]: Problems with VAD
>
> I'm working on a dialogue system with a different ASR module. I'm
> experiencing some problems with the VAD. This module seems very
> sensitive, triggering very easily, and thus forwarding the data coming
> from the microphone to the engines even if it is not speech. I was
> wondering if I could convert our own GMM models for VAD to the sphinx 3
> format. Is there any tool available to convert a standard format (for
> instance HTK) to sphinx 3 format? I could also train GMMs using our own
> Olympus data. Did anyone did this before?
>
> Best,
> Jose David
>