Speech Recording Tools

• ​revoxer - however, no activity since early 2006

Audio Recording Tools

• ​Audacity
• ​SpeakEasy - Ruby abd Sback Library
• ​Sphinx-4 Audio Tool - Java based
• ​Shtooka Recorder - word recorder

Audio Processing Libraries

• ​Snack Sound Toolkit
• ​The Snack Sound Toolkit for Ruby
• ​Java Sound Demo
• ​PortAudio - portable cross-platform Audio API
  • C++ wrapper: ​Cross-platform microphone recording example
  • Perl Wrapper: ​Audio::PortAudio - portable audio I/O

Possible toolkits to create Browser-based Speech Submission System

• Flash
  • ​covcell (for Moodle)
    • ​covcell discussion group
  • ​Media Blog (record and save voice files directly to the Moodle blog)
    • ​code
  • ​Disseminator's Audio Recorder (Windows based)

does not using streaming audio, saves audio as MP3 to user's PC

• Java
  • ​MoodleSpeex - voice record/upload tool
    • see JavaSound page

Other Browser Speech Submission GUI ideas

• ​FindSounds
• ​galaxyzoo
• ​recaptcha - using captcha mechanism to digitize old books;
  • ​audio reCaptchas - for blind users
• ​W3C - Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA - Alternatives to Visual Turing Tests on the Web

Other Options

• Commercial - Free
  • ​Say'n'Post - Windows only
• Commercial
  • ​javasonics - used for audio reCaptchas
  • ​VIMAS Web audio recorder