Roy Jamison wrote: > Hi all. Have been looking at the Ubuntu wiki and googled around for > quite a while trying to find an answer but there doesn't appear to be > anything concrete for linux regarding speech recognition programs. > I mean, there are developer-only orientated things like sphinx and > julius in our repos, but is there anything REALLY being worked on? > It'd be a real shame if we had to use Windows payware products to > accomplish something that we could probably build on at this stage, > albeit average quality, but wouldn't it be better to have *something* > rather than nothing? > Anyway, the Vista/Win7 recognition is really craptastic, we could esaily > do better!! > Would like to hear peeps comments on this! > > > IBM did once release a speech recognition product for Linux but they failed to maintain it and withdrew it after a while. Text to speech is a little better. The accessibility team https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility is a good starting point to find out information on this subject. There are basically two approaches, command recognition where the application is listening for a small vocabulary or recorded phrases and it triggers something in response to the command (like "call mum" to initiate a phone call). The second type of speech recognition application is *hard* and that is natural speech dictation. Whilst this is a very very hard problem I wouldn't be surprised if there were a dozen or so reasonably decent implementations done as a dissertation by various people and then abandoned once they got their degree.
Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
