Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Sphinx - voice translation - Linux

On 12/2/2014 3:08 PM, charles meyer wrote:
> Hi Tom,
>
> I spoke with someone who uses Linux and they shared that Sphinx -
> voice translation is new so many may not have tried it yet.
>
> Sorry for jumping the gun, so to speak.

It's speech recognition, not voice translation. If I throw you off the 
top of the building, I'm going to hear your voice. If I push you near 
the edge of the roof, I would hear your speech..

Sphinx has been around for at least 15 years in different forms. It has 
been, and probably always will be a system designed for IVR (interactive 
voice response, "speak or press one to get ignored by a customer service 
representative"). It is not and never will be a system for 
general-purpose speech recognition.

The only useful speech recognition packages are NaturallySpeaking with a 
not very close runner-up of Windows speech recognition. Google speech 
recognition would be in the running if it wasn't bound to a very limited 
number of apps with no user accessible grammars. I'm currently 
experimenting with running Windows in a KVM virtual machine, running 
NaturallySpeaking there and find a way to see the output of  
NaturallySpeaking back to the Linux host OS.  If I can get the audio 
stream clean enough, it looks like a promising technique for adding 
speech recognition to Linux

Now all I need some help to figure out what I don't know about injecting 
keystrokes into linux and may be help with fixing up KVM so it passes 
audio cleanly under most conditions.

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