Hi, I've seen papers that describe using ANNs for various cool recognization problems, such as speech, images, stuff like that. But the question is: are there any freely available data sets for this kind of training? Or do people usually craft these data sets by hand (perhaps combined with generating algorithms)? Thanks, -- Mikko

Check the UCI Machine Learning Repository.

http://www.ics.uci.edu/~mlearn/MLRepository.html


-Kirk

Thanks kirkd!

The character/digit training data looks especially promising and humanly parseable.