> Speech recognition is not reliable anywhere. True, but what has performance to do with availability? (You're the second person to try and distract by taking this tangent.) Here are two facts:
* Professionals (doctors, lawyers) are paying *thousands* for speech recognition software and hardware (microphone, not counting the required powerful computer). Obviously speech recognition is that good, because if it wasn't paying off, those groups wouldn't pay up. Having said that, it's nevertheless a tad short of ideal. * There is only 1 (as in, one) company in the world which sells you speech recognition software for a desktop computer. The reason there is only one is because the other two went bust. This looks to me like an indication that there isn't really any money to be made with it. (Actually, Microsoft is dabbling with it too, but I haven't heard much about it lately.) It is unlikely that open source is able to deliver the speech recognition guts any time soon (I have had some contact with this, and am possibly the only one for some distance with a little experience of Linux speech recognition). Unless, of course, someone benevolent coughs up some cash (and the entry ticket is 8 digits). Perhaps OSSRI should approach the Bill Gates foundation...... > The proprietary software business > model is unsustainable in most situations. I don't think I agree. Well, until open source meets my computing needs I'm happy to have them met by propritory software if I consider its price to be reasonable. This is not mutually exclusive with a healthy portion of idealism. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
