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

Hi :)
We have the same thread going on the Accessibility Mailing List now too.
It might be worth looking at it through the Nabble or GMane interfaces.

Over there Eric suggested NaturallySpeaking 13 but had several good
detailed points about issues relating to the whole area of speech and voice
recognition.  Well worth a read if this area interests you but it's about
as long as one of my longer mails.  Interesting though! :)


Wrt Bible, Koran or Torah study programs Linux does have quite a large
range of different packages to help.  For the Bible there are different
programs to cover different versions (such as the King James(?) vs whatever
and whatever else).  Of course each person needs something slightly
different so i can well imagine Andrew's typical hefty research into a
topic of interest didn't find anything to suit him but something there
might suit you, if you are interested.

Regards from
Tom :)




On 3 December 2014 at 04:55, Walther Koehler <walther.koehler@posteo.de>
wrote:

> High Eric,
>
> thank you for that information. I was trying to get a speech recognition
> system running for some time.
> I have been using the IBM-line of speech recognition ViaVoice/Nuance under
> Win98 with some success. Now, I planned to use it in VirtualBox.
>
> -Do you have experience with ViaVoice, are there reasons to prefer
> NaturalSpeaking?
>
> -Why did you choose KVM over VirtualBox?
>
> Have a good day
>
> Walther
>
> Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014 schrieb Eric:
> > 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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