make spoken words machine recognizable.

["paul fellows" <4-werk@gmx.com>]

A better way to explain why I want to add echo to a voice to make spoken words machine recognizable. 
Current voice to text systems use very complex mathematical algorithms to work out what are words and what are not words, and then to work out what the word might be.

-d gain -n -D -b 32 -r 8k -e filename.raw filenaname.wav play 

If I am starting to get the hang of sox this should just play the input. You as a human being will have no problem recognizing the words. As mentioned above machines do have difficulty with that task.

Now play the input from the mic with these echoes added: echo 11 1 13 1 17 1 19 1 23 1 29 1 31 1 37 1 47 1 53 1.

It will sound like an horrendous mush, but keep listening. After a while you will start to recognize patterns, a while latter you may even be able to convinces your self that you could what is being said. Human beings are very good at learning to recognize patterns. Machines are also able to recognize patterns, when they have to be given examples to match against.

Languages contain many tens of thousands of words, all of them made up of fewer fifty spoken sounds. So use a piece of pattern matching software to match the sounds in sequence, build up the words one sound at a time. I intend to use chatscript for this, but if you are more familiar with aiml or some other language, it should work.

To make the machine understand the words is a bigger problem.

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