If the person has Dragon NS then it can be made to run in Wine using Platypus: http://thenerdshow.com/platypus.html
Unfortunately this is not a Linux only solution. Roy Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit Location: Canada On 17 February 2011 01:02, Paul <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > --- 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. > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
