Re: Debian speech recognition - end user information /or forus

2014-02-20 Thread Richard Owlett

Scott Ferguson wrote:

On 20/02/14 01:20, Richard Owlett wrote:

I want essentially a note taking tool.


Assuming you mean speech to text


Explicitly.




NO interest in voice activated control.

A brief search indicated voice recognition is an active project under
Debian accessibility. What I found was developer oriented. I'm looking
for fairly basic information aimed at prospective user.


Good luck - it's a complex subject developed by need to scratch, which
means that it's unlikely simple dictation is the primary development
objective.



Yepp!

I was trying to differentiate my preferences from mass market 
products such as Dragon Naturally Speaking.




I've casually followed speech recognition since the 70's, though have
never actually used it.

The goals of CMU Sphinx far exceed how I'd actually use it. [E.G. I
don't need speaker independence, continuous recognition, nor real time.


Most of those capabilities are necessary in order to recognise words.


Not historically true. My original interest was sparked by a MIT 
post-doc friend who was doing speech recognition circa 1972 using 
a DEC KI-10 (I was in DEC's power supply engineering department 
at the time.)






I'm not sure if large vocabulary would be a requirement.]

Initially I intend to use Wheezy on a Lenovo R61 Thinkpad with a yet to
be specified USB input device. The laptop will not be running any other
application while voice recognition is being used.

Pointers please. Thank you.






AFAIK Simon is the only real candidate for your stated requirements.
http://grasch.net/node/19
Note that it uses CMU Sphinx so I guess your stuck with something that
isn't stripped down to suit your (perceived?) requirements. Still
undergoing development and yet to match a commercial product I use in WINE.
http://grasch.net/projects

OS speech to text is something I'm interested in, so I'd appreciate any
new information you discover.

Kind regards




Thanks for the links. I've only had a chance to glance at them so 
far. Weekends are for following chains of links.




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Re: Debian speech recognition - end user information /or forus

2014-02-19 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 20/02/14 01:20, Richard Owlett wrote:
 I want essentially a note taking tool.

Assuming you mean speech to text

 NO interest in voice activated control.
 
 A brief search indicated voice recognition is an active project under
 Debian accessibility. What I found was developer oriented. I'm looking
 for fairly basic information aimed at prospective user.

Good luck - it's a complex subject developed by need to scratch, which
means that it's unlikely simple dictation is the primary development
objective.

 
 I've casually followed speech recognition since the 70's, though have
 never actually used it.
 
 The goals of CMU Sphinx far exceed how I'd actually use it. [E.G. I
 don't need speaker independence, continuous recognition, nor real time.

Most of those capabilities are necessary in order to recognise words.

 I'm not sure if large vocabulary would be a requirement.]
 
 Initially I intend to use Wheezy on a Lenovo R61 Thinkpad with a yet to
 be specified USB input device. The laptop will not be running any other
 application while voice recognition is being used.
 
 Pointers please. Thank you.
 
 
 
 

AFAIK Simon is the only real candidate for your stated requirements.
http://grasch.net/node/19
Note that it uses CMU Sphinx so I guess your stuck with something that
isn't stripped down to suit your (perceived?) requirements. Still
undergoing development and yet to match a commercial product I use in WINE.
http://grasch.net/projects

OS speech to text is something I'm interested in, so I'd appreciate any
new information you discover.

Kind regards


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