On 20/02/14 01:20, Richard Owlett wrote: > I want essentially a note taking tool.
Assuming you mean speech to text.... > NO interest in voice activated control. > > A brief search indicated voice recognition is an active project under > Debian accessibility. What I found was developer oriented. I'm looking > for fairly basic information aimed at prospective user. Good luck - it's a complex subject developed by "need to scratch", which means that it's unlikely "simple dictation" is the primary development objective. > > I've casually followed speech recognition since the 70's, though have > never actually used it. > > The goals of CMU Sphinx far exceed how I'd actually use it. [E.G. I > don't need speaker independence, continuous recognition, nor real time. Most of those capabilities are necessary in order to recognise words. > I'm not sure if "large vocabulary" would be a requirement.] > > Initially I intend to use Wheezy on a Lenovo R61 Thinkpad with a yet to > be specified USB input device. The laptop will not be running any other > application while voice recognition is being used. > > Pointers please. Thank you. > > > > AFAIK Simon is the only real candidate for your stated requirements. http://grasch.net/node/19 Note that it uses CMU Sphinx so I guess your stuck with something that isn't stripped down to suit your (perceived?) requirements. Still undergoing development and yet to match a commercial product I use in WINE. http://grasch.net/projects OS speech to text is something I'm interested in, so I'd appreciate any new information you discover. Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/53051741.4050...@gmail.com
