Yes i Think Xvoice converts speech into text and does almost all required taskz...
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[Fwd: Re: [svlug] Linux speech -> text] (Raj Shekhar) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:50:58 +0530 > From: Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Offtopic: Caution > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed > > and with naughty.com > > On 26-Apr-08, at 9:28 PM, narendra sisodiya wrote: > > > Same with ZDNet > > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Anil Seth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> Please do not register on http://moneycontrol.com/ > >> I found myself getting spam. They have an un-subscribe option which > >> seems to be ignored. > >> I unsubscribed at least 6 times and no effect. > >> Anyway, Google's spam filtering gets rid of all their mails. But I > >> would not trust their site now for anything. > >> > >> Regards > >> Anil > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > >> http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > >> Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 > >> Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > Narendra Sisodiya > > _______________________________________________ > > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 > > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > > > -- > regards > > Kenneth Gonsalves > Associate, NRC-FOSS > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:04:36 +0530 > From: Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [ilugd] Open source: 'World's largest software company' > To: ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > ...if open source products and services were calculated at commercial > prices, open source as a whole would be equivalent to the largest > software company in the world, with revenues exceeding the combined > income of Microsoft, Oracle and Computer Associates... > > Full story at: > http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39201838,00.htm > > -- > Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:26:19 +0530 > From: Mayank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Open source: 'World's largest software company' > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "The Linux-Delhi mailing list" > <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:04 AM, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > ...if open source products and services were calculated at commercial > > prices, open source as a whole would be equivalent to the largest > > software company in the world, with revenues exceeding the combined > > income of Microsoft, Oracle and Computer Associates... > > > > Full story at: > > http://software.silicon.com/os/0,39024651,39201838,00.htm > > > > -- > > Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ > > GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F > > PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 > > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > > > > That's very true but I am sorry, I don't find any point in looking at > collaborative monetary strength of open source softwares against closed > source. > > Regards, > Mayank > > -- > *Human knowledge belongs to world* > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:00:42 +0530 > From: "Dhiraj Gaur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [ilugd] Offtopic: Caution > To: "The Linux-Delhi mailing list" <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > And Indiatimes mail as well, the mail service itself is spammed by > advertisements of the times group > > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Kenneth Gonsalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > and with naughty.com > > > > On 26-Apr-08, at 9:28 PM, narendra sisodiya wrote: > > > > > Same with ZDNet > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Anil Seth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > > > > > >> Hi, > > >> > > >> Please do not register on http://moneycontrol.com/ > > >> I found myself getting spam. They have an un-subscribe option which > > >> seems to be ignored. > > >> I unsubscribed at least 6 times and no effect. > > >> Anyway, Google's spam filtering gets rid of all their mails. But I > > >> would not trust their site now for anything. > > >> > > >> Regards > > >> Anil > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > > >> http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > >> Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 > > >> Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Narendra Sisodiya > > > _______________________________________________ > > > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > > > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > > Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 > > > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > > > > > > -- > > regards > > > > Kenneth Gonsalves > > Associate, NRC-FOSS > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 > > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > > http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 13:53:15 +0530 > From: Raj Shekhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [ilugd] [Fwd: Re: [svlug] Linux speech -> text] > To: The Linux-Delhi mailing list <ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [svlug] Linux speech -> text > Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 00:02:36 -0700 > From: Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Quoting Ajit Natarajan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Is there any software out there (free or commercial) that converts > > speech to text? > > This subject came up on another mailing list in February, so I'll quote > my post to that thread: > > [snip some] > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Speech-Recognition-HOWTO/index.html > Speech Recognition HOWTO, dtd 2002 (slightly moldy) > Talks about various aspects of the problem including hardware. > Software mentioned: > > A. Open source: > 1. XVoice > Dictation/continuous speech recognizer that can be used with a variety > of X applications. > Requires IBM ViaVoice for Linux and Motif/Lesstif graphics libs. > > http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tdoris/Xvoice/<http://www.compapp.dcu.ie/%7Etdoris/Xvoice/> > http://www.zachary.com/creemer/xvoice.html > http://xvoice.sourceforge.net/ > http://www.onelist.com/community/xvoice/ > > 2. CVoiceControl (Console Voice Control) > A basic speech recognition system that allows a user to execute Linux > commands by using spoken commands, and includes a microphone-level > configuration utility, a vocabulary "model editor" for adding new > commands and utterances, and the speech recognition system.. > (Replaces KVoiceControl.) > http://www.kiecza.de/daniel/linux/ > http://www.kiecza.de/daniel/linux/cvoicecontrol/ > > 3. Open Mind Speech > Not end-user oriented, and still under development at the time of the > HOWTO update. Previously called FreeSpeech, before that SpeechInput, > before that VoiceControl. > http://freespeech.sourceforge.net/ > > 2008 update: "mostly complete". Last update was 2002. > http://sourceforge.net/projects/freespeech/ They've added a nice > C++ rapid-development environment called FlowDesigner and are using > that. > http://flowdesigner.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page > Looks like the "Open Mind Speech environment aka Piper PL" has been > given the name "Overflow". (I hope this is meaningful to some people, > because it isn't to me.) > > 4. GVoice > A library (i.e. core module to be used by other software) to use > IBM's ViaVoice to control Gtk/GNOME apps, including libraries for > initialization, recognition engine, vocabulary manipulation, and panel > control. Development was stalled at the time of the HOWTO update. > > http://www.cse.ogi.edu/~omega/gnome/gvoice/<http://www.cse.ogi.edu/%7Eomega/gnome/gvoice/> > > 5. ISIP > Speech recognition engine (toolkit) from the Mississiptti State U. > Institute for Signal and Information Processing, aimed at developers, > including a front-end, a decoder, and a training module. > http://www.isip.msstate.edu/project/speech/ > > 6. CMU Sphinx > Large package, aimed at developers, including trainers, recognizers, > acoustic models, language models, and some limited documentation. > http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/Sphinx.html > http://download.sourceforge.net/cmusphinx/sphinx2-0.1a.tar.gz > > 7. Ears > Another in-progress kit for developers. > ftp://svr-ftp.eng.cam.ac.uk/comp.speech/recognition/ > > 8. NICO ANN Toolkit > NICO Artificial Neural Network toolkit, aimed at developers, is a > flexible back propagation neural network toolkit optimized for > speech recognition applications. > http://www.speech.kth.se/NICO/ > > 9. Myers's Hidden Markov Model Software > Developers' toolkit implementing in C++ Hidden Markov Model algorithms > detailed in L. Rabiner's book "Fundamentals of Speech Recognition". > http://www.itl.atr.co.jp/comp.speech/Section6/Recognition/myers.hmm.html > > 10. Jialong He's Speech Recognition Research Tool > Research tool for developers implementing three different types of > recognisers: DTW, Dynamic Hidden Markov Model, and a Continuous > Density Hidden Markov Model. > http://www.itl.atr.co.jp/comp.speech/Section6/Recognition/jialong.html > > B. Proprietary Software. > 1. IBM ViaVoice > Proprietary, partly gratis, partly for pay as of the HOWTO update. > Had hefty resource requirements for the day. Includes documentation > (PDF), trainer, dictation system, and installation scripts. Some other > components available. Apparently, Java stuff. > http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/dev/sdk_linux.html (Gone.) > (See footnote [1], below: IBM killed it.) > > 2. Vocalis Speechware > http://www.vocalisspeechware.com/ > http://www.vocalis.com/ > > 3. Babel Technologies's Babear SDK for Linux > Speaker-independent system based on Hybrid Markov Models and > Artificial Neural Networks technology. They also have a variety of > products for Text-to-speech, speaker verification, and phoneme analysis. > http://www.babeltech.com/ > > 4. SpeechWorks > http://www.speechworks.com/ > > 5. Nuance > Speech recognition/natural language product; can handle very large > vocabularies and uses a unqiue distributed architecture for scalability > and fault tolerance. > http://www.nuance.com/ > > 6. Abbot/AbbotDemo > very large vocabulary, speaker independent system, originally > developed at Cambridge Univ., then spun off. > http://www.softsound.com/ > > 7. Entropic > Offered software for Linux, but then were bought by Microsoft. > Old site http://www.entropic.com/ showed what they had (but you'll > probably have to use an Internet Archive snapshot, by now). > Older copy of their Hidden Markov Model Toolkit is available gratis > (but proprietary) from http://htk.eng.cam.ac.uk/ . > > > A bunch more options (a second catalogue of projects): > http://linux-sound.org/speech.html > > A good page on the subject, last updated _June 2005_ and hence much less > moldy than the HOWTO: > http://volker.top.geek.nz/linux/speechrec.html > > > [1] Article from 2004 about IBM plans to finally open-source ViaVoice: > > http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2004/09/14/ibm-to-open-source-speech-recognition > (At 2008, I see no sign that they ever did.) > Article from 2002 about IBM making yet more bizarre moves, including > discontuing without comment the Linux SDK for ViaVoice: > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6383 > Article from 2004 that IBM had open-sourced _some_ voice-recognition > software, donating it to Apache Softwre Foundation and Eclipse > Foundation, but had omitted ViaVoice: > > http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14 > 188&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0<http://www.hackinthebox.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14188&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0> > Further detail: > > http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2004/09/22/open-sourced-ibm-speech-code-doesnt-include-viavoice > > Sounds like ViaVoice for Linux -- both the SDK and runtime -- has been > bureaucratised to death and buried somewhere within IBM. Too bad, but > that's what happens all too often when you rely on proprietary software. > http://xvoice.sourceforge.net/faq.html includes: > > What is xvoice? > Xvoice enables continuous speech dictation and speech control of > most X applications. To convert users' speech into text it uses the IBM > ViaVoice speech recognition engine, which is no longer made available > from IBM. > > Where can I get the ViaVoice Runtime RPM, the ViaVoice SDK RPM, or the > ViaVoice Dictation (GUI) RPM? > They are no longer available from IBM. Used versions may be > available; ask on the mailing list for more help locating people who are > willing to relinquish their license(s) to you. Check in at the xvoice > mailing list to stay up to date on developments. > > > _______________________________________________ > svlug mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.svlug.org/lists/listinfo/svlug > > > -- > raj shekhar > facts: http://rajshekhar.net | opinions: http://rajshekhar.net/blog > Yoda of Borg are we: Futile is resistance. Assimilate you, we will > 'Borg? Sounds Swedish.' - Lily, Star Trek First Contact > > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailing list > ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org > Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > > > End of ilugd Digest, Vol 61, Issue 38 > ************************************* > _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
