I see on TV "Dragon Natural Speaking". That is the "NaturalSpeaking" your have listed below, right?
Which package[s] is[are] good for Linux - i.e. Debian based ones like Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
Is there any FREE ones that work well for Windows?It would be real nice to get a Linux Box set up for a neighbor that is blind - since I do not have a spare Windows system and she cannot afford to buy the Windows OS like Win7. Be nice to have it set up for "reading" e-books - in their epub format or converted to text - instead of trying to find audio book copies. Of course you will need the voice commands to run the system to get the "box" to find the book, play, pause, stop, go back, etc.. That is what the speech recognition really us needed.
On 12/02/2014 11:55 PM, Walther Koehler 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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