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Understand SPE home directory

SPE home directory is an analogy of user home directory in operating systems (e.g. /home/ in *nix, /Users/ in macOS or Windows, etc.) – it is the place where SPE stores data for users configured in SPE. Default SPE home directory location is {SPE_installation_directory}/home/. This location can be changed using server.user.home setting in phxspe.properties SPE configuration file. Changing the home…

Understand SPE connectors for external TTS

…expected to provide information about actual TTS service capabilities: list of voice names, supported languages and audio quality (sampling frequencies). This info is used during SPE startup sequence – TTS connectors enabled in SPE configuration file are started with –info parameter and SPE reads the connector output. Connectors failing to provide the info won’t be available for use with SPE….

Q: I am getting SPE related error after starting the Browser (e.g. SPE server crashed, Error Downloading…, unable to connect to the SPE server, unable to start the localhost…)

…free space in windows explorer and select “open command window here”) Run PhxBrowser software with command: PhxBrowser.exe /spe-debug /spe-output PhxBrowser software will start with “SPE output” tab which shows the debug output of SPE Linux: Run PhxBrowser software in terminal with command: ./PhxBrowser –-spe-debug –-spe-output PhxBrowser software will start with ” SPE output” tab which shows debug output of SPE

Understand SPE user accounts

…prioritization section in the REST API documentation maximum pending requests – legacy REST Server 2.x attribute, ignored in SPE 3.x It’s important to realize that each SPE user account has its own home directory, where SPE stores the account’s data, see Understanding SPE home directory article. It means that by default the accounts’ data is isolated from each other. Therefore,…

Release Notes

Table of Contents Toggle Speech Platform release 3.60 New features and fixes Previous Releases Speech Platform Public Release Fall 2022 (SPE v3.55) Speech Platform public release Spring 2022 (SPE v3.50) Speech Platform public release Fall 2021 (SPE v3.45) Speech Platform release 3.60 Here is a summary of most important new features and fixes since last Public Release 3.55. New features…

Download Speech Platform

…Standalone mode – the recommended setup, requiring some manual steps using command line Further information resources Speech Engine REST API documentation online: https://download.phonexia.com/docs/spe/ offline: {SPE_directory}/doc/api_reference.html or http://{SPE_address:port}/doc Speech Engine technical documentation check the Speech Engine section and the “Understand…” articles listed in the left menu tutorials and training videos see technologies introduction video below and SPE Training videos section https://youtu.be/DDu0Y1rgQ6k…

Speech Engine update

…concerns the SPE configuration file, especially when updating from rather old SPE version) do the changes – again, a visual comparison tool makes this step much easier! test the updated installation Example of update process for SPE: Stop running SPE Make a backup of SPE (see Understand SPE administration and backup) Optionally(!) delete bsapi directory – this decision is fully…

Measuring of a software processing speed – what is the FtRT (Faster than Real Time)

…in our example is 36 seconds. After stripping silence, it gets 14 seconds – this means that original audio contains 38% of net speech and 62% of silence. Phonexia speech technologies analyze the entire recording, but pick only the speech segments for AI processing, i.e. the absolute processing time will be practically the same… Creating voiceprint by Speaker Identification took:…

Understand SPE administration and backup

…the system: SPE database – the technology models, SPE user accounts, etc. are stored here SPE configuration file (usually /settings/phxspe.properties) technologies configuration file (usually /settings/ technologies.xml, or see phxspe.properties for details) licensing file (license.dat, usually stored along to phxspe.exe, or see phxspe.properties for details) Optimally, Partner should backup also the following entire SPE directory [optional], with all subdirectories (/bsapi/, etc.)…

Understand SPE metafiles

Certain SPE entities – SID Speaker models, SID Audio source profiles, LID Language packs – can have additional information associated with them in the form of “metafiles”. This article explains the intended usage of metafiles. In general, SPE is intended as under-the-hood engine, focusing purely on the speech-related audio processing. Any additional functionality should be done on the application layer,…

SID: TUTORIAL: Speaker Identification – How to Do a Basic Test

Phonexia Speaker Identification is a voice biometry tool for recognition of speakers by their voice. In this video, we will show you how to start using this technology! You will learn how to create a “Speaker Model” to identify a speaker in a set of data. Ready to test it? Start with our video: What else is needed? 1. Phonexia…

SPE and Browser installation: embedded SPE

In this post, we break down the complexities of the initial installation process. By the end of the guide, you will be able to start processing your recordings with Phonexia Speech Technologies. 1. Download Evaluation package Download the Phonexia Evaluation package from https://partner.phonexia.com/kb/sp/speech-platform/evaluation-package/ Create a new directory and unzip the package into it in your desired location, for ex. C:/Phonexia/…

Understand SPE technologies, instances and workers

Configuring Speech Engine to utilize effectively the full power of underlying hardware can get challenging – one can easily get lost in all the strange terms like technologies, instances, slots, or workers… This article should shed some light in it. Speech Engine is like post office Thinking about Speech Engine, there is actually a very nice analogy with post office…