Ah Ha!
I accidentally discovered the rabbit hole & fell in!!! I don't
want to address Speech Recognition (per se) but to address the paranoia of
"make us more dependent on Microsoft" while pressing for Java....this is the
old story most of us have well survived. It's time to set aside (god help us)
this in a "Working Group"
Hank Hamilton of San Francisco ([email protected])
> Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 10:13:04 -0500
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [discuss] Please make Open Office Speech Recognition Friendly
>
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Bruce Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Dear felloe Oo users:
> >
> > No! No! No! This would make the open source world more dependent on
> > Microsoft.
> >
> > In stead find or help contribute to an open source app to to do the voice
> > recognition that runs on the same Java runtimes as Oo. Then it needs to be
> > licensed by the usual LGPA and ported cross-platform with as much of it as
> > possible "noarch".
> >
> > Personally, this is not an app I use, as I generally create in text, then
> > either give it as a live speech or record it as a speech in Audacity.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Bruce M.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Samuel Moser [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: June 14, 2010 6:48 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: [discuss] Please make Open Office Speech Recognition Friendly
> >
> > Please make Open Office Compatible with Windows Speech Recognition
> >
> >
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> I think Orca was created with that in mind.
> http://live.gnome.org/Orca
>
> Sun had an accessibility program and I wonder if maybe they work also
> for the Windows platform.
>
> "Orca is designed to work with applications and toolkits that support
> the assistive technology service provider interface (AT-SPI). This
> includes the GNOME desktop and its applications, OpenOffice, Firefox,
> and the Java platform. Some applications work better than others,
> however, and the Orca community continually works to provide
> compelling access to more and more applications. "
>
> --
> Alexandro Colorado
> OpenOffice.org Español
> http://es.openoffice.org
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