Well I have a little experience with Sphinx2. A few years ago I played a bit with perlbox voice (http://www.perlbox.org/). This application uses sphinx2 for launching applications by voice commands. That worked quite well, but it isn't the thing you're looking for (= using voice recognition for writing texts). But maybe such an application can be build by using sphinx.
- Marvin Raaijmakers On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 12:38 +0000, Chris Hayes wrote: > Thanks or the feedback Eric. Is it really this hopeless? You talked > about the Sphinx projects being okay - but not ready for normal users. > To what extent are they capable? I'd really love to know if you or > anyone else has tried them. > > I have looked into them but haven't had the time (and not being a very > capable technical user) to get them going, orto get them going nicely. > If I knew how well they worked, I'd probably be more inclined to use > the time I don't have getting them working. > > Chris Hayes > > > On 19/02/07, Eric S. Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Hayes wrote: > > Hi - I was wondering whether anyone here might know about > what voice > > recognition software is currently available for Linux. > > (warning, I am an unrepentant curmudgeon and negative > filter. Interpret > the following accordingly. If I'm wrong on any points, and > someone > wants to correct me, I will gladly learn.) > > In a nutshell, not much. Sphinx 4, and others of its family, > you have > some fairly decent recognition systems. However, they are not > ready for > prime time because if they were, people would be using them > for desktop > recognition. while the recognition engines may work well, a > lot of the > ancillary pieces such as training, dealing with microphone > switching, > dictionary management etc. are not quite there yet. On the > other hand, > the same shortcomings can be laid at the feet of Linux and > Windows audio > subsystems. > > from my perspective, the only usable speech recognition for > end users is > naturally speaking. There may be something on a Macintosh but > I don't > have any experience there. The reason I say NaturallySpeaking > is the > only usable one is because it's a large vocabulary continuous > speech > recognition system people used to get work done. Recognition > engine, > language model, sound system interface, etc. etc.. have had > many years > to evolve. nuance has had a couple of years to screw it up > and they've > done a wonderful job at it. I think the only positive > contribution they > have made during their stewardship of the product is the > addition of a > Bluetooth microphone audio model. > > The only way to get good speech recognition on Linux is for > someone to > drop a small number of millions of dollars into nuance's lap > and pray. > Not a good solution. > > I've been thinking about an alternative model for a couple of > years in > between other projects but I do believe the best solution > (best defined > as getting handicapped people working), would be to make use > of Windows > and Linux via virtual machines. Since virtual machines do > horrible > things to sound systems, I would recommend using Windows as a > host OS > with speech recognition, a mediator to transfer > characters/commands/keystrokes to the Linux environment and a > mediator > to return window state information such as screen content, > application > running etc. etc.) > > There has been a primitive instance (which this has been taken > off the > net) to show the technique is fundamentally sound. a full > function > mediator, while difficult, is a couple orders of magnitude or > more > easier to build than moving a large and complicated windows > application > to Linux. > > in the short-term, run Linux on a virtual machine, display > apps via X11 > server, and use something like natpython and one of its macro > packages > to build commands for Linux applications. nattext still bite > you in the > ass with all the random characters and inserts in > applications but, > that's nuances contribution. > > ---eric > > -- > Speech-recognition in use. It makes mistakes, I correct some. > -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
