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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
• Word Spotting plug-in

Tuning Tools • Phonetic Learning
• Acoustic Model Adaptation
Supported Languages American Spanish, Mexican, Colombian, Argentinian, Chilean & Castilian Spanish, Norwegian, Finnish, Swedish, Danish, U.S., U.K. & Australian English, French, Canadian French, Russian, German, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Turkish, Greek, Portuguese, Brazilian, Catalan, Valencian, Galician, Arabic*, Romenian* (* under development)
Grammar Formalisms • JSGF (Java Speech Grammar Format)
• W3C SRGS 1.0 (XML and ABNF Form) + SISR 1.0
OS supported MS Windows (7, XP, Vista, Server 2003, Server 2008**), Red Hat Enterprise Linux (3, 4, 5**), SUSE Linux 10, 11**, CentOS 5.2
** also available for 64 bit version
Interfaces • Loquendo API (C/C++)
•Loquendo API (.NET e C#)
• Loquendo API (Java)
• Intel Dialogic Audio Source support (only Windows)
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 are no longer supported.

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