Glossary of Terms

Glossary of PSST Terms

Computational Linguistics

Forced Alignment - an automatic way of finding the timestamps in audio files where certain phonemes are spoken

Sphinx - CMU's open source NLP tool, typically used for speech recognition

Regular Expression - A sequence of characters that defines a pattern you want to search for

Computer

Open Source - the source code is open to the public which means anyone can tweak the code for an open source program as they like it

C - the C programming language. Very low-level and fast

C++ - object oriented version of C. Still low level and fast

Java - object oriented programming language by Sun Microsystems. Most used programming language in the open source world

HTTP - hyper text transfer protocol - a standard way of sending text across the Internet or network

FTP - file transfer protocol - a standard, faster way of sending files across the Internet or network

SVN - subversion - a central place that keeps track of changes on any type of project, typically code projects

MySQL - 'my standard query language' is a free database