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If you are considering adding voice recognition to your AI or robotics project then you are probably looking for a free implementation that works well. Your other option would be to purchase a copy of what is currently considered the state-of-the-art in speech recognition, Nuance’s Dragon Naturally Speaking suite. However, before spending any money, you can also try your luck with the open source Sphinx software.

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Scientists are developing an intelligent music computer which can analyse a person’s brain activity when they listen to sounds and then composes new music designed to make them happy.

Researchers, who believe the mood-altering music-writing software can help combat stress and depression, will unveil the first composition created by the project at a music festival in Plymouth tomorrow. (Sat)

The project is being led by Dr Eduardo Miranda, a composer and professor at Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research (ICCMR), and Dr Slawomir Nasuto, a professor in the Cybernetics Research Group at the University of Reading.

Using Artificial Intelligence techniques, the computer will play music and analyse the brain activity of the listener for emotional indicators. Based on this feedback, and a programmed knowledge of music, it will generate new sounds that can alter these emotions.

The project has been awarded a £880,000 grant by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council.

The first public demonstration of the research will be a concert entitled ‘Symphony of Minds Listening’ on Saturday, in which the second movement of Beethoven’s 7th Symphony will be “remixed” and reassembled to reflect the brain-scanned activity of three volunteers during listening.

AC Grayling: New school will provide a grounding in the humanities for students to develop as well-rounded individuals

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A private university college set up by the philosopher AC Grayling is bidding to open a sister state secondary school where the pupils could have access to lectures by top academics including Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker and Niall Ferguson.

The New College of the Humanities has applied to the education secretary Michael Gove to open a "co-educational free school for students of all backgrounds" in Camden, central London, with a specialism in humanities. When the university opened last September with its first 60 students it was widely criticised for providing an elitist education costing £18,000-a-year, twice the standard British university tuition fees.

Grayling had assembled a stellar cast of lecturers, including Booker prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson and the Princeton history lecturer Sir David Cannadine but in its first year it recruited only a third of the students it intends to have in each year group.

If granted permission, the free school would open in 2014 and will take students aged between 11 and 18. The curriculum will include a variety of humanities subjects at AS and A2 Level with a core curriculum including scientific literacy. Organisers said it will have smaller class sizes than other schools – the intention is to open with 100 students in Year 7 in 2014 and, when full in 2020, there will eventually be up to 740 students on the roll.

The free schools policy has been championed by Gove to allow groups of parents and others to apply to set up non-selective schools to be funded by the taxpayer but not controlled by the local authority. They have been opened by faith groups and City philanthropists, Everton football club has opened a school for 14-19 year olds on Merseyside while Eton College and seven other independent schools opened a sixth form college in east London last September. The Maharishi school, in Ormskirk, Lancashire, expect pupils to practise transcendental meditation at the beginning and end of the school day.