On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 11:26 PM deloptes <delop...@gmail.com> wrote: > Richard Owlett wrote: > > ..... > > Are there now end-user, Debian compatible, dictation applications that > > do NOT require proprietary software nor internet connectivity? My > > internet searching turned up primarily old material or tool-set packages > > packages aimed at programmers creating their own packages. > > > > Comments or suggestions? > > Again one of these topics, where people post about software they do not > actually use. > > Let me comment here my impressions. I studied speech processing and wrote > my > thesis on dialog systems in 2007. Until about 2005 there were still some > open source tools like ViaVoice by IBM. Basically all of this was dropped > by 2010 - no idea why - might be something related to Google/Amazon, costs, > patents or whatever else. > > > > > Hi Deloptes,
If your thesis is available online, could you please post a link to it? TIA! dan