Performance evaluation and prediction of open source speech engine on multicore processors
Christine Niyizamwiyitira, Lars Lundberg · 2013
This paper quantifies the performance of the core part of voice driven web using free and open source speech engine; the speech engine which is very high computation demanding, it consists of Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text To Speech (TTS). Two open source programs, Sphinx-4 and FreeTTS-1.2.2 are used for ASR and TTS respectively. These two programs are executed on 2 different hardware multicore processors with 4 hyperthreaded cores, and 8 cores respectively. The response time with respect to the load variance and the number of cores is measured and predicted using a linear regression model.