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Does anyone know if there's a good voice authentication library available? Or do I need to find a good voice recognition library and build from there?
There are several open source packages implementing speaker recognition. For example Mistral
http://mistral.univ-avignon.fr/
There are clones of mistral too
http://code.google.com/p/improved-mistral/
Speech Recognition is usually quite different from voice authentication (often called voice biometrics). Here is a good overview document - http://www.sans.org/reading_room/whitepapers/authentication/exploration-voice-biometrics_1436 says:
There are consultant companies such as J. Markowitz, Consultants who
rank voice vendor software. These reports are often available for
purchase online. One vendor’s implementation may be more suitable than
another depending on the use case. Nuance (www.nuance.com) and Vocent
(www.vocent.com) are two vendors who provide voice authentication
solutions and who came up repeatedly in the research for the “Current
Applications” section of this paper. Nuance has been rated the top
voice authentication technology vendor by Celent Communications.12
Nuance claims a 96% or higher accuracy rate for speech recognition13,
and Nuance’s Verifier product claims a “high” accuracy rate.
That is a good overview, but it is a little out of date. Look around for others such as:
http://www.persay.com/technology-voice-biometrics.asp
http://www.voxeo.com/biometrics/home.jsp
http://www.nuance.com/landing-pages/enterprise/voice-biometrics/default.asp
http://www.angel.com/products/voice-biometrics.php
http://www.voicevault.com/voicevault-enterprise/
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Can someone let me know the pros and cons or using Jira and/or Google docs for Agile sprints?
We are team of 8 developers and planning to switch to either Jira or google docs.
We currently use white board for sprint stories....
Thanks
To be honest it would be like comparing one of the old cellphones to the new smartphone- it's true you could use both to make a call, but on a smartphone you could do so much more.. the list of Jira's pros is long, and i don't think that the Google docs have any major pros over Jira, except it's free.
You can try jira for free to evaluate it, just get it from http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/overview.
If you are using it for agile planing, be aware that Jira itself is lacking many of the agile dearly needed properties, but they offer an expansion called green-hopper which add a lot of power and help with the agile management.
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I have been looking around and noticed that ecommerce sites are not using social auth and i am building an ecommerce site and wanted to know the reasons for not using social auth.
It depends, will you be storing credit card details? You might hit some problems with PCI compliance if purchases can be made through social network logins.
If you're just using it as a useful way of signing up, you should be OK.
In a recent survey my employer conducted, we established that in younger (<30 years) users there was a perception that they did not want to link financial data with there social networking data due to, primarily, a lower level of trust in social networking brands, w.r.t visa et. al
I would never trust any site that allows me to login with my Facebook account. Too much risk for getting my user and password sniffed out and abused.
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I am interested in writing a small automatic trader for the forex market. I would like to chose my own tools (platform and programming language) and I just need to find a decent API to query the numbers and that accepts requests for trading actions.
I guess the ideal would be some web service with a XML API, or similar.
Any ideas?
Check out the InteractiveBrokers API or the Cunningham T4 API. Both are really good, although I'm not exactly sure T4 allows forex trading.
MT4 is the industry standard. It allows simple interface through .dll files and has an extensive support base.
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Does anybody know a provider offering TV listings (through API or download) for all channel and cable providers?
Or is there any independent company collecting/providing such data?
An API/REST/SOAP interface would be great.
The MythTV folks have gathered resources for various countries here. If you're in the US or Canada, they recommend the Schedule Direct service.
These services are generally based on the XMLTV data format/toolset.
Rovi offers both SOAP and REST APIs for TV listings. It supplies listings for all channels of the cable, satellite, and broadcast services in multiple countries. Rovi is the source the cable companies use. See this website.
Schedule Direct doesn't grant commercial licenses. I'm checking out tvrage as mentioned above and Rovi right now.
Edit: If this is a commercial project, I recommend contacting Tribune Media Services (click "License our Content" in the footer at Zap2It.com). That was the solution I chose for my company, simply because they were much more prompt in their response than Rovi. The paid listings are XML files.
If all you need is a non-commercial license, SchedulesDirect works very well. If you have questions about their licensing, they encourage you to ask. We started using their listings and then had to change tack because of licensing issues.
You could contact staff of WebTelevideo at info#webtelevideo.com that has solved your problem. They may provide you an account to their own API.
WebTelevideo API has TV Scheduling for many countries and metadata (actors, directors, plot, trailers, posters etc..)
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Closed 11 years ago.
I'm new to the VxWorks Environment are there any good sources of information out there?
2 Books helped me:
Real-Time Concepts for Embedded Systems ISBN-10: 1578201241 ISBN-13: 978-1578201242
(Basic RT concepts, Common Patterns)
Tornado and VxWorks: What's not in the Manual ISBN-10: 3833410698 ISBN-13: 978-3833410697
If your budget allows it, I would recommend taking one of the courses offered by WindRiver. My company brought in one of their trainers to teach a class on-site and it was excellent. They provided hands-on programming activities and a lot of information. If you are new to the concepts of real-time or embedded programming, they provided the necessary background information, and even if you were already familiar with these (as I was), there was plenty of useful training specific to VxWorks and Workbench. I believe they also organize their own courses, in addition to coming to companies. Course Schedule