Sometimes, I think the developers of Vinux Linux 3.x, off of Ubuntu could tweak 
what they have to other possibilities like yours. If they can assist the blind 
and people like that famed scientist to speak...why not take spoken language to 
the screen, etc.?

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=vinux

Perhaps the same reason there aren't many word games or pinball games for 
Linux...In my opinion, it's part language barrier and the profit or fun margin 
for developers.

Those Asian Robots they make understand speech...maybe the programs will 
trickle from there?

Joan in Reno

--- On Wed, 2/16/11, Paul <[email protected]> wrote:

From: Paul <[email protected]>
Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: speech to text program?
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, February 16, 2011, 10:02 PM



--- In [email protected], Joan Leach <jleach728@...> wrote:

>

> When I took your string and searched Google:

> speech to text program (Like Dragon) for Linux

> This was the first 
> link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_in_Linux

> Good luck,Joan in Reno



About what I expected. A program like that is sort of counter to the typical 
UNIX alike philosophy of lots of little programs. It'd be a huge program! Large 
programs are a low percentage of the Linux platform.



Neat trick: (the tab completion trick) Hit tab twice at an empty prompt in a 
terminal to see just how many executables are on your path at any given time.



pfred1@spot:~$ 

Display all 2897 possibilities? (y or n)



Root has a few more:

root@spot:~# 

Display all 3266 possibilities? (y or n)



Most of those are teeny tiny little programs.



I still like to browse Freshmeat now and again just to see what is out there 
because not everything is always in distribution repositories.



http://freshmeat.net/



Although installing unpackaged software can often be cumbersome, sometimes it 
is worthwhile.




 



  





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