@Alan: Exactly my thought! It's a shame that if there are any, that they weren't released (or at least not without public knowledge). I suppose contacting Universities would be a futile attempt ;) (saying that if I thought it would bring results I would do it!) If anything can be found I would be willing to maintain it.
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 22:29 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: > Roy Jamison wrote: > > Hi all. Have been looking at the Ubuntu wiki and googled around for > > quite a while trying to find an answer but there doesn't appear to be > > anything concrete for linux regarding speech recognition programs. > > I mean, there are developer-only orientated things like sphinx and > > julius in our repos, but is there anything REALLY being worked on? > > It'd be a real shame if we had to use Windows payware products to > > accomplish something that we could probably build on at this stage, > > albeit average quality, but wouldn't it be better to have *something* > > rather than nothing? > > Anyway, the Vista/Win7 recognition is really craptastic, we could esaily > > do better!! > > Would like to hear peeps comments on this! > > > > > > > IBM did once release a speech recognition product for Linux but they > failed to maintain it and withdrew it after a while. Text to speech is a > little better. The accessibility team > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility is a good starting point to find > out information on this subject. There are basically two approaches, > command recognition where the application is listening for a small > vocabulary or recorded phrases and it triggers something in response to > the command (like "call mum" to initiate a phone call). The second type > of speech recognition application is *hard* and that is natural speech > dictation. Whilst this is a very very hard problem I wouldn't be > surprised if there were a dozen or so reasonably decent implementations > done as a dissertation by various people and then abandoned once they > got their degree. > > Alan. > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
