> Has anyone had experience with IBM's voice recognition software on linux?
http://volker.dnsalias.net/linux/ Viavoice was a lot more efficient than Dragon 3 years ago. The Linux version is now dead. IBM has discontinued supplying the SDK. The commercial version is still available (as viavoice dictation), but IBM decided to sell them only to Americans. Anything to the contrary from IBM NZ or IBM Oz are lies. You always needed to *buy* the viavoice box to obtain a license. The SDK only had a 30 day trial license. Alternatively, buy the expensive versions of Mandrake 7.x or 8.0, but no later. The Mandrake version has newer viavoice rpms with several problems fixed. You can't get updates from IBM. Yes, we all know it sucks. In any case, the IBM commercial version is substandard. You can only dictate into a text editor. It does not allow command-and-control. You could try xvoice, but you'd still have to buy the box from IBM (good luck trying) or obtain a legal Mandrake copy. If you want speech recognition for linux, you have a choice between viavoice. Everything else is at best experimental. Mind you, experimental is a good word to attribute to viavoice dictation as well. Read through the last 3 months of the ddlinux list for reasons why this situation is not going to change. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann
