Re: [PLUG] Current state of Linux voice recognition

2017-06-29 Thread VY
> Do you recall the sample bit depth and rate - [so I could compare to > hardware I'll be looking at]. This has been more than a decade so my recollection may be off. I was not doing anything that require very clear perception. It was a home toy project albeit with practice home-automation use.

Re: [PLUG] Current state of Linux voice recognition

2017-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2017 11:17 AM, VY wrote: > About 11 years ago, I had a PC and using older version of this software: > > https://cmusphinx.github.io/ That page speaks of Pocketsphinx, an apparently current version is in the Debian repository. Synaptic reports "This package contains end-user speech

Re: [PLUG] Current state of Linux voice recognition

2017-06-29 Thread Richard Owlett
On 06/29/2017 02:15 AM, King Beowulf wrote: > On 06/28/2017 06:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: >> Up until about ten years ago, while still using Windows, I was >> following voice recognition. At that time the only option was >> commercial product which cost too much and wasn't a good match >> for

Re: [PLUG] Strange Firefox Hijacking?

2017-06-29 Thread King Beowulf
On 06/28/2017 10:15 PM, Dick Steffens wrote: > This afternoon I had occasion to visit three YouTube pages: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5PJ0JZUhgc > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIVa_nkU0j4 > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dBGnUSrjQo > > The first two are old Disney cartoons, and

Re: [PLUG] Current state of Linux voice recognition

2017-06-29 Thread King Beowulf
On 06/28/2017 06:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: > Up until about ten years ago, while still using Windows, I was following > voice recognition. At that time the only option was commercial product > which cost too much and wasn't a good match for my desires at that time. > > Time has passed and