Welcome to the list. I joined because I am disabled and unfortunately the 
accessibility models currently available do not help me in the slightest. I was 
hoping to find the time to serve my own needs which I know would serve the 
needs of other people like myself with upper extremities disabilities and 
dependent on speech recognition.

Best laid plans etc cetera. :-)

Here's where I'm at and I could use some help.

the only really useful speech recognition environment right now is nuances 
naturally speaking followed closely by Microsoft. obviously the main problem is 
they only run on Windows. 

I have set up a prototype of a working environment where I run Windows as a 
virtual machine dedicated solely to speech recognition. Then I have a bridge 
which transfers key codes or other types of speech events over to Linux from 
windows. Right now, I've been somewhat successful with injecting speech 
generated characters into Linux applications. I'm working on the next 
generation now and running into problems with uinput.  as soon as i fix those 
problems, using the community developed macro environment, we will have a 
reasonably useful speech recognition system driving Linux.

What I mean by reasonably useful is that I can drive emacs, write prose and a 
bit of code. With any luck, that would only be a stone's throw away from being 
able to execute code on the Linux side as a result of interpreting a grammar on 
the Windows side. The remote execution capability would put us on a parity with 
what's available on Windows.

Anyway, if you'd like to help, I would welcome assistance.



On May 29, 2015 8:29 AM, William Best <standard7...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My name is William Best.  I am not sure if this is the right group to join
> for how I would like to contribute.
>
> My passion/career involves helping people with developmental disabilities
> get better access to technology.  Over the past year or so, I have been
> experimenting with different Linux distributions to come up with a
> low-cost, stable, and robust solution for the disabled people I work with.
>
> My goal is to help get features/apps that would help disabled people access
> technology in a better way.
>
> Let me know if I am in the right group for this.
>
> Thanks!
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