On 06/29/2017 02:15 AM, King Beowulf wrote: > 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
I had the first Wikipedia article. The software listing of the TLDP reference may be dated but the whole article appears to be good guidance for more research. > > Some leverage Googles speech API - and everything you say gets > uploaded to Google. Anything involving Google is a non-stater! > 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 Thank you. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
