Hello John, There are lots of Free Software speech processing packages. The following is a random list of relevant resources. Let's evaluate and determine if any of those packages would be useful for you, and have it converted into a Debian package.
Speech Recognition HOWTO: http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Speech-Recognition-HOWTO.html Dates from April 2002, should be updated. Speech Recognition for Linux: http://volker.dnsalias.net/linux/speechrec.html Seems to be up to date as of 2005. CVoiceControl - command and control for Linux: http://www.kiecza.net/daniel/linux/ Up to date as of 2002. Open Mind Speech: http://freespeech.sourceforge.net/ The project seems to have died at 2000. The CMU Sphinx Group Open Source Speech Recognition Engines: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php htk: http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/ simon: http://sourceforge.net/projects/speech2text/ Most recent news is from January 2008. Julius: http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en_index.php used by Simon, most recent software version was released at May 2008. MARF: http://marf.sourceforge.net/ Seems to be active as of 2007. Related Ubuntu project - VoxForge: http://www.voxforge.org/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4718/ The following are not speech recognition per se, but it may be good idea to ensure that there are Debian packages for all FOSS tools mentioned in the following: Free speech analysis software: http://www.personal.rdg.ac.uk/~llsroach/phon2/freespeech.htm Not directly related to speech recognition, Speech analysis software (Praat): http://homepage.ntu.edu.tw/~karchung/Phonetics%20II%20page% 20twentythree.htm --- Omer On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 17:42 +0100, John Hughes wrote: > Apologies in advance if this is not the right forum for this. I rely > on speech recognition a lot, but effective (or in fact, any) dictation > software is only available for Windows. Specifically, Dragon > NaturallySpeaking is the only working speech recognition program that > I have been able to find. I would like to go back to Debian, but at > the moment it is not a realistic option. What are the Debian Project's > thoughts on open source speech recognition for desktop computing? And > is there anything humble non-programmers with limited use of the > keyboard can do to help? -- Philip Machanick: "caution: if you write code like this, immediately after you are fired the person assigned to maintaining your code after you leave will resign" My own blog is at http://www.zak.co.il/tddpirate/ My opinions, as expressed in this E-mail message, are mine alone. They do not represent the official policy of any organization with which I may be affiliated in any way. WARNING TO SPAMMERS: at http://www.zak.co.il/spamwarning.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
