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I am looking for a software, a library or an algorithm that can be trained to recognize about a dozen speaker independent voice commands.

The commands will be very distinct phrases of 4-5 words each. They can be chosen to sound very different from each other. Additionally, the commands will be in more than two different languages. The user will be guided to say only the exact phrases and talk slowly, loud and clear in front of the microphone.

I am currently looking for an algorithm that can compare speech spectrograms and give me a matching percentage, but no luck so far. Any ideas?

If it helps, the code can be written for the specific phrases only, and, in worst case, the phrases can be reduced to 3 or 4.

Operating system can be Linux (preferably), Windows or Android. No Internet services.

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    What's the operating system? Google voice recognition or Siri are speaker-independent on Android/iOS. (but not language independent)
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Oct 1, 2014 at 18:14
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    Thank you for your comment Franck. Operating system can be linux (preferably), windows or android. Google voice recognition and Siri are not stand-alone softwares. They are internet services. Unfortunately I can not use them.
    – Sigman
    Oct 2, 2014 at 5:29
  • There's a reason its speaker dependent to an extent. I for one tend to be murder on most voice recognition that I've had to use, even microsoft's activation system.
    – Journeyman Geek
    Oct 15, 2014 at 8:38

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CMU PocketSphinx is specifically designed to work in cases where a small set of voice commands are employed. As it uses a word-dependent phone dictionary, this would allow you to easily map different pronunciations to word actions.

It is possible to further train the system when additional accuracy is required.

Your requirement of an algorithm giving you a "matching percentage" is best described by PocketSphinx with confidence values, which are returned on a per-word basis.

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Simon is exactly what you are looking for.

Simon is not a full speech-to-text engine like Dragon Naturally Speaking is, but rather you can program Simon to recognize specific phrases and to perform specific actions. This works even if the phrases are spoken by different people.

Simon runs on all modern Linux distros, and is very easy to install and configure.

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You need a software application like, Dragon Naturally Speaking. Dragon Naturally Speaking is one of the original voice recognition programs. I remember hearing of them back when this was a novelty.

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    Dragon NaturallySpeaking is speaking-dependent (but great otherwise!).
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Oct 15, 2014 at 3:42
  • I would think that any such program would be speaking-dependent as it is voice command recognition.
    – Michael Eakins
    Oct 15, 2014 at 10:52
  • @MichaelEakins I think that Sigman is suggesting that, in his situation, his application should not work to dynamically improve accuracy. Can you disable this feature in Dragon?
    – baitisj
    Oct 10, 2015 at 18:49

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