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

I have not looked in a long time... I have trouble with my wrists 
sometime, so, it would be nice if I had something that would integrate...

Been  a few years since I looked so perhaps it is time for another look.

On 12/03/2014 04:48 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> 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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