I would be interested in knowing which Voice Rec engine you are using. Thanks > > > > For the blind, some sort of voice command and dictation software > should > > be built in, or at least allow third-party voice software to use > the > > Jabber client. I am unaware of what voice systems are common on > > computers for the blind, anyone know? I would assume they would be > > designed to work with any application built for that voice system. > Not > > only is it important to be voice dictation friendly by allowing the > user > > to "speak" the IM messages and have them read off to them from the > text, > > but also for the client to have "voice bindings" for commands such > as > > creating messages, editing prefernces, and other typically > GUI-based > > actions. > > > I've been working with open source systems sphinx2(speech in) and > festival > (speech out). I've thought about making a jabber client using these. > It is > hard to get myself to write it because personaly I don't think I > would use > it(as I'm not blind). If I ever get something written I'll be sure to > let > someone know, but for those that want to take up the challenge. > > Sphinx: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/ > Festival: http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival/ > > Sphinx would be perfect to handle the commands, such as "Jabber Send > Message To Contact Five". It picks up words from a list. It wouldn't > work > well to type out messages from voice, as its vocabulary is > limited. > > Festival would work good to read messages sent to them by others. > > I've been working on some voice command stuff with sphinx and perl, I > would be willing to send in patches from time to time but not startup > and > be a main developer of such a project. > > I just wanted to point some options that are availible to someone > working > on this. Is anyone on the list familar with common software used by > the > blind, or is there such a thing? > > > > Russell Valentine > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
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