Re: To be M$ free....

2007-04-04 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-28 09:08:01, schrieb Anthony Campbell: > On 27 Mar 2007, Greg Folkert wrote: > > There are experimental projects, but sadly most (actually, all I found) > > appear to be stagnant or abandoned. Those that are stagnant but not > > actually abandoned won't compile with newer versions of com

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:18 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Joe writes: > > As of about a year ago, extremely poor. I was looking for scriptable OCR, > > and couldn't find anything Open Source that was even barely usable with > > large, clear characters. While personal OCR on Windows was a reasonable >

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > As of about a year ago, extremely poor. I was looking for scriptable OCR, > and couldn't find anything Open Source that was even barely usable with > large, clear characters. While personal OCR on Windows was a reasonable > price, once it was scriptable the price increased by more tha

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Joe
Ron Johnson wrote: There seem to be a few OCR projects in the Debian repository. Don't know how good they are, though. As of about a year ago, extremely poor. I was looking for scriptable OCR, and couldn't find anything Open Source that was even barely usable with large, clear characters. Whi

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/28/07 03:08, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 27 Mar 2007, Greg Folkert wrote: > > [snip] > >> There are experimental projects, but sadly most (actually, all I found) >> appear to be stagnant or abandoned. Those that are stagnant but not >> actual

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Mar 2007, Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > > There are experimental projects, but sadly most (actually, all I found) > appear to be stagnant or abandoned. Those that are stagnant but not > actually abandoned won't compile with newer versions of compilers or > newer versions of glibc or both.

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 21:39 -0400, Jim Hyslop wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > Am 2007-03-12 11:25:57, schrieb Mike McCarty: > > > >>This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM > >>that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about > >>being "stuck" with it. Here is

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-27 Thread Jim Hyslop
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-03-12 11:25:57, schrieb Mike McCarty: > >>This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM >>that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about >>being "stuck" with it. Here is a place where MS

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-03-12 11:25:57, schrieb Mike McCarty: > This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM > that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about > being "stuck" with it. Here is a place where MS is better than > Linux, yet that still does not get acknowledged. No, M$ is

Re: ..voice recognition, was: To be M$ free....

2007-03-21 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:48:37 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > On 19.03.07 21:54, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> ..try play with these searches in your CLI: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-Reformer $ apt-cache search recogni |wc -l >> 123 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-

Re: ..voice recognition, was: To be M$ free....

2007-03-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:54:36 -0500 (EST), Don wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have a friend who would like to get away from Microsoft system > > dependence. The show stopper seems to be voice recognition. She is > > partially disabled and needs Naturally Speaking or equivalent.

..voice recognition, was: To be M$ free....

2007-03-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:54:36 -0500 (EST), Don wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I have a friend who would like to get away from Microsoft system > dependence. The show stopper seems to be voice recognition. She is > partially disabled and needs Naturally Speaking or equivalent.

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-12 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/07 01:51, Mike McCarty wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM >>> that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about >>> being "stuck" with it. Here is a

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Steve Lamb wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about being "stuck" with it. Here is a place where MS is better than Linux, yet that still does not get acknowledged. Er, when wasn't it a

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: > This whole thread strikes me as unusually rancorous. ISTM > that MS is providing a Good Thing, and STILL one complains about > being "stuck" with it. Here is a place where MS is better than > Linux, yet that still does not get acknowledged. Er, when wasn't it ackowledged?

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: If she really needs VR, then she's stuck with MS Windows. Er, well, maybe not. Is there a chance that OSX would give her what she needs? I know it isn't free (speech/beer) but IMHO it is a step closer. I mean it isn't Microsoft and it is based on F

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > If she really needs VR, then she's stuck with MS Windows. Er, well, maybe not. Is there a chance that OSX would give her what she needs? I know it isn't free (speech/beer) but IMHO it is a step closer. I mean it isn't Microsoft and it is based on FreeBSD. --

Re: To be M$ free....

2007-03-10 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/10/07 13:54, Don Hayward wrote: > Hi, > > I have a friend who would like to get away from Microsoft system > dependence. The show stopper seems to be voice recognition. She is > partially disabled and needs Naturally Speaking or equivalent. S

To be M$ free....

2007-03-10 Thread Don Hayward
Hi, I have a friend who would like to get away from Microsoft system dependence. The show stopper seems to be voice recognition. She is partially disabled and needs Naturally Speaking or equivalent. She uses it for live dictation as well as recording to a digital recorder followed by transcrip