Steve, What you're looking for is "speech detection". It's a funny little nitch of speach audio with a simular type of success/failure profile as recognition. there are some methods with limited broad success and some with broad limited success. Depends mostly on how you're willing to limit your environment, expected inputs, processing horsepower, and acceptable failure. no perfect solution, but lots of engineering tradeoffs. On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 17:25:06 +1300, steve@tla.co.nz wrote: > Can ayone suggest a reasonable source of beginners information on > speech ? > > I don't want to get into it as far as speech recognition or generation, but > more like distinguishing speech from non-speech sounds. Maybe some > pointers to appropriate terms to throw at Google. > > Sorry for the vagueness. If I knew what the question was, I probably > wouldn't need to ask it. > > Steve. > > ========================================== > Steve Baldwin Electronic Product Design > TLA Microsystems Ltd Microcontroller Specialists > PO Box 15-680, New Lynn http://www.tla.co.nz > Auckland, New Zealand ph +64 9 820-2221 > email: steve@tla.co.nz fax +64 9 820-1929 > ========================================= > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > -- Dan Crews, E.I.T. (crews.dan@gmail.com) <>< -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist