VEDICS Speech Assistant

[Eric S. Johansson]

On 5/21/2010 11:04 AM, Nischal Rao wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I and some of my friends have created a speech assistant software for
> linux called VEDICS(Voice Enabled Desktop Interaction and Control
> System). Using this software the user can access any element found on
> the user's screen through speech. The user can also navigate the
> filesystem through speech.
>
> We have created some demo screencasts of the software:
>
> 1. Accessing the gnome panel and application.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrVaJXtv0WU
>
> 2. Changing the theme and background.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgX94qGj3g
>
> 3. Navigating directories and playing songs:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVQwAoeIavk
>
> 4. Running a slide show:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtzA8TFwvuI
>
> 5. Running default applications and window operations:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEANbu8p50
>
> 6. Stopping and starting vedics:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLFtdrlt3lM
>
> 7. Creating and deleting files:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3CFAl22h2o
>
> 8. Navigating links:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AufBaaJazKU
>
>
> Currently the software doesn't support the dictation facility. However,
> we are planning to add this feature in the future.
> The best part of this software is that it is speaker independent, no
> training is required and it can recognize words not present in the
> English dictionary.
>
> Currently it works well on ubuntu 9.10 and ubuntu 10.04
>
> You can find the source code at : http://sourceforge.net/projects/vedics/

very nice.  have you thrown away your keyboard yet?  please do so and send a 
message to the list without keyboard.