Open Source Speech Recognition

[Chris Dawson]

There is IBM ViaVoice for Linux which has been discontinued.  If you
join the xvoice mailing list and ask around, you might be able to find
a copy somehow.  xvoice is a generic application for voice control. 
You can define grammars for any application so it could work with
Firefox and OO.  I think they are working on getting it ported to use
Sphinx which is a decent voice recognition system.  At any rate, they
will know best on that list.

Chris

On 2/9/06, Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 20:26 -0800, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
> > > Alternatively, anyone know of a "Dragon Naturally Speaking" port to
> > > *nix or an app that achieves the same effects in OOO and (say)
> > > Firefox?
>
> There are speech synthesizer support packages in Ubuntu / Debian Linux,
> but no speech to text as far as I know of.  There is Open Source work in
> that area, but AFAIK, it is not fully developed yet.  It should be.
>
> A Google search for "open source speech recognition" turns up a number
> of hits.  Perhaps the most interesting of them is the CMU Sphinx
> project:
>
>   http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php
>
> I hope that somebody develops this into a usable desktop component in
> the near future.  It would be awesome if I could dump an audio file from
> my digital recorder onto the desktop, and have it turned into a text
> file, OpenOffice.org, TeXmacs, or LaTeX document.
>
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