Speech recognition

[Steven Vollom]

David Fletcher wrote:
> I suspect this is a long shot:-
>
> Does anybody know of any speech recognition software that can be used with 
> Kubuntu?
>
> I have an acquaintance who has never owned a computer, but wants to use one to 
> write a book. He can be nudged in the direction of using Kubuntu and LaTeX I 
> think, but he says he's not got time to type it. He wants to dictate it 
> directly into the text editor.
>
> Does anybody know of any applications that can do this please? I've tried all 
> the search strings I can think of in the Adept installer, and Google has 
> turned up nothing for me.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dave
>
>
>   
I was interested too when I first moved to Kubuntu.  I could not find 
any though.  I haven't tried Wine, the Windows emulator, but it may 
work.  I use Wine for a program called e-Sword and it works just the 
same if I were using Windows. 

Steven