IBM Speech Recognition Becomes Open Source

Published: Jun 20, 2007

IBM will make parts of its speech recognition software open-source according to Tweakers.net. The company hopes to speed up the development of the software, so the company has a head start on the competition.

Speech recognition will become user-friendly, so it can be implemented in such uses as call centers and cars. The next few years the market for these applications should grow strongly. The release of components of IBM’s system reputedly costs $10 million USD and the control will be evenly divided among two foundations. The part concerning recognition of simple words as data, time and locations will be housed at the Apache Software Foundation, which earlier housed Cloudscape for Big Blue. The second foundation is the Eclipse Foundation, which obtained the software for the speech adaptation.
 
At the same time, IBM has announced an alliance with Avaya, which supplies software for the use at call-centers. Both companies will develop speech controlled self-service applications and, in addition, Avaya will offer its applications on IBM’s WebSphere-platform.
 
Source: Tweakers.net
 
Translator: Ineke
 

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