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Loquendo ASR - Technical Specifications
Main Features

• Speaker Independent
• Open Vocabulary
• Noise robustness (e.g. in-car, wireless, etc.)
• Optimized for Telephonic Speech

Basic Technology A combination of Neural Networks and Continuous Density Hidden Markov Models
Configurable Recognition Modalities • Grammar based
• Continuous Speech Recognition with Statistical Language Modeling
• Free or Forced Phonetic Decoding
Key features

• N-Best Decoding
• Confidence Scores at sentence and word level
• Tunable Voice Detection sensitivity
• Improved Barge-In functionalites
• Speech Complete/Incomplete Timeout
• Garbage rules
• Grammar handling and fast grammar compilation on the fly
• Re-usable Built-in grammar library
• Multilingual grammars
• Voice enrolled grammar
• Natural Language Processing
• Optimized for VoiceXML applications
• Loquendo Speaker Verification

Tuning Tools • Phonetic Learning
• Acoustic Model Adaptation
Supported Languages Australian English, US English, UK English, French, Canadian French, American Spanish, Argentinian, Chilean, Mexican and Castilian Spanish, Catalan, Valencian, Galician, Russian, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Greek, Portuguese, Brazilian, Danish, Finnish and Swedish, as well as Mixed Language Castilian Spanish and Catalan
Grammar Formalisms • JSGF (Java Speech Grammar Format)
• W3C SRGS 1.0 (XML and ABNF Form) + SISR 1.0
OS supported MS Windows (XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008*), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (3, 4, 5*), SUSE Linux Enterprise 10.0 * also available for 64 bit version
Interfaces • Loquendo API (C/C++)
• MRCP (for Client Server Architecture)
• Intel Dialogic Audio Source support
• DSR support
CPU Requirements Connected Digits Recognition: 80 channels on an Intel Pentium 3.2 GHz CPU
Grammar with 10,000 words: 20 channels on an Intel Pentium IV 3.2 GHz CPU
Memory Requirements • 15 MB per language shared among channels
• Few MB per channel depending on the recognition task (e.g. 5 MB for   Connected Digits Recognition, 15 MB for a grammar with 10.000 words)

From September 2009, versions of Loquendo ASR up to and including version 5 will no longer be supported.

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