Re: [PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/13/2020 07:39 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 13 Nov 2020, Richard Owlett wrote: 2. I am not aware of Chrome/Chromium offering any interesting features. Chromium is the open source version of chrome. There are some web sites, such as those used for hosting virtual conferences, that do n

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-13 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 13 Nov 2020, Richard Owlett wrote: 2. I am not aware of Chrome/Chromium offering any interesting features. Chromium is the open source version of chrome. There are some web sites, such as those used for hosting virtual conferences, that do not support firefox or opera. I've found that

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/12/2020 05:37 PM, Russell Senior wrote: Have you seen this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_software_for_Linux I had not seen that page but was aware of most of the content. Its link to the Wikipedia article on Mycroft [an end user app using the DeepSpeech toolkit]

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-13 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/12/2020 01:12 PM, Michael Rasmussen wrote: On 2020-11-09 02:45, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/08/2020 11:15 PM, VY wrote: This is sort of related to your question. I have needs to do speech recognition and I found this website using Chrome to do just that:     www.dictation.io It works

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-12 Thread Russell Senior
Have you seen this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_software_for_Linux On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 5:36 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > > I'm a lousy typist. Trying to make notes on a laptop does not work well > because typing interrupts my train of thought. > > Many years ago when I wa

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-12 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On 2020-11-09 02:45, Richard Owlett wrote: On 11/08/2020 11:15 PM, VY wrote: This is sort of related to your question. I have needs to do speech recognition and I found this website using Chrome to do just that: www.dictation.io It works well on Linux. Hope this helps! -v Thank yo

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-12 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/11/2020 02:37 PM, Ben Koenig wrote: On 11/6/20 5:36 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm a lousy typist. Trying to make notes on a laptop does not work well because typing interrupts my train of thought. Many years ago when I was a Windows user and Dragon Naturally Speaking was in its initial

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-11 Thread Ben Koenig
On 11/6/20 5:36 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: I'm a lousy typist. Trying to make notes on a laptop does not work well because typing interrupts my train of thought. Many years ago when I was a Windows user and Dragon Naturally Speaking was in its initial release I followed speech recognition cas

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-10 Thread Michael Barnes
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020, 14:49 Ken Stephens wrote: > Richard, > > Have you looked into the python module pyttsx3? It does have limited > voices, but they are understandable. > > HTH, > Ken > > > > Ken, Wrong direction. pyttsx3 translates text to speech. It will read a document to you. The question

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-10 Thread Ken Stephens
Richard, Have you looked into the python module pyttsx3? It does have limited voices, but they are understandable. HTH, Ken On Mon, Nov 9, 2020 at 2:46 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > On 11/08/2020 11:15 PM, VY wrote: > > This is sort of related to your question. > > > > I have needs to do speech

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-09 Thread Richard Owlett
On 11/08/2020 11:15 PM, VY wrote: This is sort of related to your question. I have needs to do speech recognition and I found this website using Chrome to do just that: www.dictation.io It works well on Linux. Hope this helps! -v Thank you but that page indicates it requires Chrome t

Re: [PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-08 Thread VY
This is sort of related to your question. I have needs to do speech recognition and I found this website using Chrome to do just that: www.dictation.io It works well on Linux. Hope this helps! -v On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 5:36 AM Richard Owlett wrote: > I'm a lousy typist. Trying to make

[PLUG] Anyone using Linux based speech recognition for text entry?

2020-11-06 Thread Richard Owlett
I'm a lousy typist. Trying to make notes on a laptop does not work well because typing interrupts my train of thought. Many years ago when I was a Windows user and Dragon Naturally Speaking was in its initial release I followed speech recognition casually - but not recently. Are there now en