End user speech recognition applications

2024-12-14 Thread Richard Owlett
I want to explore feasibility of a "bright idea" [snicker!]. I'm looking for relatively light weight end user application that will run under 64 bit Debian 12. The program's description would likely use the terms continuous and large vocabulary. *HOWEVER* I would be happy initially if it could

Re: Continuous speech recognition for amd64 Debian

2021-05-22 Thread ellanios82
On 5/22/21 6:10 PM, deloptes wrote: As a two finger typist  : guess youtube have fantastic software providing SubTitles  rgds .

Re: Continuous speech recognition for amd64 Debian

2021-05-22 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > As a two finger typist I wish continuous speech recognition for note > taking and composing emails. Unfortunately, the only end user speech > recognition in Debian is Pocketsphinx which is command and control > oriented. > > When I asked on debian-ac

Re: Continuous speech recognition for amd64 Debian

2021-05-22 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Owlett wrote: > As a two finger typist I wish continuous speech recognition for note taking > and composing emails. Unfortunately, the only end user speech recognition in > Debian is Pocketsphinx which is command and control oriented. Julius, for instance, https://github.c

Continuous speech recognition for amd64 Debian

2021-05-22 Thread Richard Owlett
As a two finger typist I wish continuous speech recognition for note taking and composing emails. Unfortunately, the only end user speech recognition in Debian is Pocketsphinx which is command and control oriented. When I asked on debian-accessibility, I was pointed to Mozilla Deepspeech

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-06 Thread Dan Hitt
On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 11:26 PM deloptes 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 pa

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-06 Thread Richard Owlett
lowed speech recognition casually - but not recently. 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

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-06 Thread mick crane
On 2020-11-06 07:25, deloptes wrote: 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

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-06 Thread tomas
On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 08:25:36AM +0100, deloptes wrote: [...] > Again one of these topics, where people post about software they do not > actually use. In my case, that's true. I do follow the topic, but from some safe distance. > Let me comment here my impressions. I studied speech processin

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-05 Thread deloptes
Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm a lousy typist. Trying to make notes on a laptop does not work well > because typing interrupts my train of thought. > > Many years ago when I was a Windows user and Dragon Naturally Speaking > was in its initial release I followed speech recogn

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-05 Thread Richard Owlett
y test the system, but building upon that is open to anyone. Having to deal with more interactive UX is out of the scope of the current target of those tools. One of the links I went to explicitly referred to doing "real time" speech recognition [it may have been written by an application developer]. More later. Thank you.

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-05 Thread Richard Owlett
g upon that is open to anyone. Having to deal with more interactive UX is out of the scope of the current target of those tools. One of the links I went to explicitly referred to doing "real time" speech recognition [it may have been written by an application developer]. More later. Thank you.

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-05 Thread tomas
On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 05:58:25PM -0500, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, November 04, 2020 12:36:51 PM Curt wrote: > > Maybe this open source, Java (is that still a thing?) app that runs > > on Linux: > > > > http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/dictator/ > > Yes, I believe that it is i

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-04 Thread rhkramer
o implement speech recognition system. We are here to suggest you the easiest way to start such an exciting world of speech recognition. Lately we implemented a Kaldi on Android, providing much better accuracy for large vocabulary decoding, which was hard to imagine before. If you are interested

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-04 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, November 04, 2020 12:36:51 PM Curt wrote: > Maybe this open source, Java (is that still a thing?) app that runs > on Linux: > > http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/dictator/ Yes, I believe that it is it, but maybe I saw an earlier version (although the web page listed above is copy

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-04 Thread Curt
I was a Windows user and Dragon Naturally Speaking >> was in its initial release I followed speech recognition casually - but >> not recently. >> >> Are there now end-user, Debian compatible, dictation applications that >> do NOT require proprietary software nor internet

Re: Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-04 Thread rhkramer
ts initial release I followed speech recognition casually - but > not recently. > > 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 to

Feasibility of speech recognition for note taking on dedicated laptop?

2020-11-04 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm a lousy typist. Trying to make notes on a laptop does not work well because typing interrupts my train of thought. Many years ago when I was a Windows user and Dragon Naturally Speaking was in its initial release I followed speech recognition casually - but not recently. Are ther

Re: Debian speech recognition - end user information &/or forus

2014-02-20 Thread Richard Owlett
epp! I was trying to differentiate my preferences from mass market products such as Dragon Naturally Speaking. I've casually followed speech recognition since the 70's, though have never actually used it. The goals of CMU Sphinx far exceed how I'd actually use it. [E.G. I don&#

Re: Debian speech recognition - end user information &/or forus

2014-02-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
eloper oriented. I'm looking > for fairly basic information aimed at prospective user. Good luck - it's a complex subject developed by "need to scratch", which means that it's unlikely "simple dictation" is the primary development objective. > > I

Debian speech recognition - end user information &/or forus

2014-02-19 Thread Richard Owlett
e casually followed speech recognition since the 70's, though have never actually used it. The goals of CMU Sphinx far exceed how I'd actually use it. [E.G. I don't need speaker independence, continuous recognition, nor real time. I'm not sure if "large vocabulary"

Re: [OT] Speech Recognition, Linux & Wine

2003-10-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 16:55, csj wrote: > At Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:52:30 -0500, > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > After doing an extensive Google search, and having seen many ques- > > tions about it in mailing lists and Usenet, I know that native SR > > for the Linux desktop is not availabl

[OT] Speech Recognition & Linux

2003-10-03 Thread Alfredo Valles
I read the previous mails about this topic and I conclude that there are no gpled programs of speech recognition. Isn't it? And what about other AI gpl/free programs? Did anyone knows some? I wonder if someone can tell me which is currently the more successful algorithm for speech recogn

Re: [OT] Speech Recognition, Linux & Wine

2003-10-03 Thread csj
At Fri, 03 Oct 2003 15:52:30 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hi, > > After doing an extensive Google search, and having seen many ques- > tions about it in mailing lists and Usenet, I know that native SR > for the Linux desktop is not available. If by native you mean working like a champ, then, I

[OT] Speech Recognition, Linux & Wine

2003-10-03 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, After doing an extensive Google search, and having seen many ques- tions about it in mailing lists and Usenet, I know that native SR for the Linux desktop is not available. Has anyone tried Windows SR programs (like Dragon Naturally Speaking or ViaVoice) under Wine, CrossOver Office or Win4Li

Re: help: speech recognition, java and viavoice

2001-03-15 Thread Eric Richardson
don't even know > what a JRE is. but i'd really like to get speech recognition working on my > box. > > on the mirror ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/ > debian/dists/woody/non-free/binary-i386/ > > there are the following p

help: speech recognition, java and viavoice

2001-03-14 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
dear all, i'm trying to install viavoice (ibm's voice recognition engine) on my woody system. viavoice requires "blackdown java JRE-1.2.2 rev RC4". other than a few non-technical details, i know nothing about java. don't even know what a JRE is. but i'd really

speech recognition

1998-11-13 Thread Gossamer
Having looked around, I'm pretty sure there's no decent speech recognition for Linux around. Please please correct me if I'm wrong! But am I also right in thinking that running one of the windoze speech rec packages under Wine wouldn't work? What I -really- want is to b

Speech recognition

1998-06-05 Thread Junior System Administrator
Hi. I was just wondering whether Debian has a speech recognition program for the shell or X Windows, it doesn't really matter. If any of you also use OS/2, do you know of any speech recognition software available for that as well (preferably free ;-) ? Thanks in advance,