"Francesco Bochicchio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 10:29:11AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote: > > Is anyone doing anything with voice recognition under Debian? > > > > I purchased ViaVoice Dictation for Redhat and I've tried to install it > > under Debian with no success. If anyone's succeeded at this I'd be > > interested in hearing from them. > > > I don't have the software, but anyway : did you try alien ? > You could also use ldd to search which libraries the program need and > then do apt-cache --search to find out which packages contain the > needed libraries ( I think alien does something close to this).
Thanks Francesco. I was indeed using alien but I was converting the RPM's to tgz files and then I tried to install them in /usr/local manually. Something in ViaVoice Dictation doesn't like being installed in /usr/local, because I then converted the RPM files directly to .deb files and ViaVoice dictation is working like a champ. So, if anyone else is considering buying ViaVoice Dictation for Linux and running it under Debian potato the only trick is to convert the RPM files to *.deb files and you'll be good to go. Gary