OSR: SpeakFreely Grammar Development

SpeakFreely technology delivers accurate recognition results from natural language, open-ended prompts. This course explains the SpeakFreely technology for OpenSpeech Recongizer 3.0 and describes situations where a SpeakFreely grammar offers the best solution for directing caller inquiries. The course walks through the development of a SpeakFreely grammar, including designing an open-ended question, collecting and labeling data, creating training files, and testing and tuning statistical language models and statistical semantic models.

This course is only offered by request. Please contact Nuance Speech University for details at training@nuance.com

• Describe SpeakFreely’s role in a speech application
• List types of applications that can use SpeakFreely
• Explain the components of a SpeakFreely grammar
• Describe the SpeakFreely data collection process
• Explain the role and importance of labeling
• Prepare data for SpeakFreely
• Build SpeakFreely training Files
• Test a SpeakFreely grammar using Nuance Recognizer Tools

• Grammar Writers
• Speech scientists

1. SpeakFreely Overview
   • What is SpeakFreely?
   • When to use SpeakFreely
   • Components of SpeakFreely
2. Technology Review
   • XML Grammar Syntax
   • ECMAScript
3. SpeakFreely Data Collection
   • Determining Categories
   • Designing the Question
   • Collecting Data
4. Data labeling Process
   • Transcribing the Data
   • Sanitizing the Data
   • Labeling Data
5. Generating the SpeakFreely Grammar
   • The Training Data Files
   • Using Subgrammars
   • Compounding Words
6. Testing and Tuning
   • Accuracy in Automatic Labeling
   • Accuracy in Speech Recognition

• Introduction to Speech Recognition
• XML Grammar Fundamentals