High Eric, thank you for that information. I was trying to get a speech recognition system running for some time. I have been using the IBM-line of speech recognition ViaVoice/Nuance under Win98 with some success. Now, I planned to use it in VirtualBox.
-Do you have experience with ViaVoice, are there reasons to prefer NaturalSpeaking? -Why did you choose KVM over VirtualBox? Have a good day Walther Am Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2014 schrieb Eric: > On 12/2/2014 3:08 PM, charles meyer wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > > > I spoke with someone who uses Linux and they shared that Sphinx - > > voice translation is new so many may not have tried it yet. > > > > Sorry for jumping the gun, so to speak. > > It's speech recognition, not voice translation. If I throw you off the > top of the building, I'm going to hear your voice. If I push you near > the edge of the roof, I would hear your speech.. > > Sphinx has been around for at least 15 years in different forms. It has > been, and probably always will be a system designed for IVR (interactive > voice response, "speak or press one to get ignored by a customer service > representative"). It is not and never will be a system for > general-purpose speech recognition. > > The only useful speech recognition packages are NaturallySpeaking with a > not very close runner-up of Windows speech recognition. Google speech > recognition would be in the running if it wasn't bound to a very limited > number of apps with no user accessible grammars. I'm currently > experimenting with running Windows in a KVM virtual machine, running > NaturallySpeaking there and find a way to see the output of > NaturallySpeaking back to the Linux host OS. If I can get the audio > stream clean enough, it looks like a promising technique for adding > speech recognition to Linux > > Now all I need some help to figure out what I don't know about injecting > keystrokes into linux and may be help with fixing up KVM so it passes > audio cleanly under most conditions. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
