simon listens: Home
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simon listens: Home
# is an open-source speech recognition program and replaces the mouse and keyboard.
# ... is designed to be very flexible and allows customization for any application where speech recognition is needed.
# ... is a potential European project of "e-inclusion" because of the language-independent programming.
# ... is in development for physically disabled people to give them the possibility to chat, to write e-mails, to surf the internet, to do internet-banking and much more.

Forvo: the pronunciation guide.
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Forvo: the pronunciation guide. All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers
Forvo is the largest pronunciation guide in the world. Ever wondered how a word is pronounced? Ask for that word or name, and another user will pronounce it for you. You can also help others by recording your pronunciations in your own language.

Poliqarp
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Poliqarp | freshmeat.net
Poliqarp is a universal suite of utilities for processing large corpora. It includes a concordancer that works on binary corpora compiled for efficient searching and a corpus builder. It supports positional tagsets, ambiguities in the texts, and Unicode.

Tool for natural language processing
Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
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Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric
This online rhetoric, provided by Dr. Gideon Burton of Brigham Young University, is a guide to the terms of classical and renaissance rhetoric. Sometimes it is difficult to see the forest (the big picture) of rhetoric because of the trees (the hundreds of Greek and Latin terms naming figures of speech, etc.) within rhetoric.
Hunting the ten-square
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Hunting the ten-square
A ten-square consists of ten (different) 10-letter words written one under another, so that the first column reads the same as the first word, the second column the same as the second word, and so on.

Junicode
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Junicode
Junicode (short for Junius-Unicode) is a Unicode font for medievalists. The current version is a beta; the selection of characters and the arrangement of the Private Use Area are subject to change. Your comments, suggestions and bug reports will be a great help to me as I complete the project.

Junicode currently contains 3096 characters in the regular style (the italic, bold and bold italic styles are less complete). These Unicode ranges are either complete in the regular style or they contain substantial numbers of glyphs (especially those of interest to medievalists)

ephyra.info
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ephyra.info
Ephyra is a modular and extensible framework for open domain question answering (QA). The system retrieves accurate answers to natural language questions from the Web and other sources. Ephyra has participated in the TREC evaluation and has been described in various scientific papers.
OpenPipe
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OpenPipe
OpenPipe is an open source scalable platform for manipulating a stream of documents. Pipelines are created from building bricks doing atomic operations on documents, like language detection, field manipulation, POS tagging, entity extraction or submitting the document to a search engine. OpenPipe was originally designed for indexing with the Solr full-text search engine, but could easily be adapted to any search engine or any other use case where documents need to be processed in various ways.

LingPipe
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LingPipe
LingPipe is a suite of Java libraries for the linguistic analysis of human language.
Feature Overview

LingPipe's information extraction and data mining tools:

* track mentions of entities (e.g. people or proteins);
* link entity mentions to database entries;
* uncover relations between entities and actions;
* classify text passages by language, character encoding, genre, topic, or sentiment;
* correct spelling with respect to a text collection;
* cluster documents by implicit topic and discover significant trends over time; and
* provide part-of-speech tagging and phrase chunking.

LacusCurtius • Apicius — De Re Coquinaria
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LacusCurtius • Apicius — De Re Coquinaria
English translation of the 4'th century Roman cookbook Apicius