is anyone using any speech / dictation with Fedora?
Robert L Cochran
cochranb at speakeasy.net
Thu Oct 16 04:54:06 UTC 2003
Several years ago, when my wife was writing her Ph.D dissertation, she
tried the Dragon Dictate product (by Dragon Systems, which I think was
bought by another company) under Microsoft Windows 98. It did a poor job
of recognition despite use of a high quality Shure microphone. She soon
gave up on Dragon and returned to typing into Microsoft Word.
Even a 90% recognition rate for Via Voice seems fantastically good. I
watched Dragon Dictate miss most voice input, even with "training".
Bob
Elton Woo wrote:
> I see that IBM's ViaVoice for linux is no longer being developed:
> http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6383, though it is still
> available for download from HERE:
> https://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/viavoice/vvlinux-r?S_PKG=dl
>
> Noted, also that there is some move afoot for a suitable open
> source replacement called Sphinx:
> http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/
>
> comments, please?
>
> TIA
> Elton ;-)
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Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/
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