What's wrong with simply using a text-only client and redirecting stdin to the voice recognition engine, and stdout and stderr to the speech synthesis engine? That way, anybody who knows how to use the stock version of the client automatically knows how to use the "accessible" version (assuming he knows how to use the speech recognition/synthesis engines - but those can be just as interchangeable as the client itself, leaving people with lots of natural options).
Dave Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> BTW - I can see plenty of applications for "chatting" with my IM client even though I'm perfectly capable of typing: 1) If I'm trying to get a nap, and somebody sends me an urgent message, it'd be great if my computer could try to wake me up, and then give me the message if it succeeded; I'd then be able to reply by simply speaking. 2) If I ever get around to putting my wearable together, it will not have a monitor, so the user (I, that is) will be "blind" by definition. It also won't be very convenient to type on it, especially if my hands are busy. 3) Being able to talk to an IM client means I can fake a voice chat, but even better, the other side doesn't have to understand anything but standard text. Now, if the other side is also equipped with the ability to talk to his IM client, we can carry out a live conversation, since audio->text compression is the best data compression you can get (unless you want to bzip2 the text, or something) ... and we'll even have bandwidth left for any other online activities we may want to be engaged in (although our CPUs will take a bit of a hit in the speech synthesis and recognition - but you can easily run the "accesibility" programs on a seperate system than the actual chat program if you're using my idea of simple redirection on a text-only client rather than trying to hardcode some sort of "accessibility features" into a chat program). Russell Valentine wrote: > > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002 05:08:57 -0700 (PDT) > Ajay Garg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would be interested in knowing which Voice Rec engine you are using. > > > > Thanks > > > > Sphinx: http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/ > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
