Squiggly Lines

I claim that The Speech Recognition Problem is fundamentally The Vision Problem, and both are really just The Squiggly Line Problem. My hypothesis is that with a few weeks' training. I'll be able to translate spectrographs (no background noise) into their English phrase.



Tim and Bill each have $10 that says that I can't do this. Is anyone else interested in giving me their money (i.e., betting that I can't do this)? Unless your name is Bill or Tom, I'm gonna cap the amount that you give me to $1. Just to warn you, I've trained myself to read Suetterlin handwriting, which *I* once thought was impossible.

Here is a sample spectrogram of me saying "Chicky check, microphone check, chicky check-a, sibilance sibilance.", one of the coolest sounds ever (check out its spectrogram), and my java code that gives you a real-time spectrogram.

(After I lose my hearing from my iPod, I'll be using this software so that I can understand people.)