On 06/28/2017 06:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Up until about ten years ago, while still using Windows, I was following 
> voice recognition. At that time the only option was commercial product 
> which cost too much and wasn't a good match for my desires at that time.
> 
> Time has passed and I'm retired. What I'm looking for would be a large 
> vocabulary, single speaker, continuous speech system. The application 
> would be straight text note taking - I'm a slow and lousy typist.
> 
> I'm already investigating good microphones with good A/D resolution and 
> preferably high sample rate [I've ideas on pre-processing I would like 
> to experiment with].
> 
> Can anyone recommend some survey articles &/or competent current reviews.
> TIA
> 
> 

There are a few speech recognition engines that are F/OSS.  A brief
summery is here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_software_for_Linux
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_speech_recognition_software
might still be useful:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Speech-Recognition-HOWTO/software.html

Some leverage Googles speech API - and everything you say gets uploaded
to Google.  There are several engines and frontends for GTK and KDE
(QT).  Quality can be a bit rough, but that depends on your accent and
how the software engine was/is  trained.

It's been awhile since I played with any of this stuff. The Google API
was pretty good, but tended to lag a bit - perhaps better now.

-Ed
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