I see on TV "Dragon Natural Speaking". That is the "NaturalSpeaking"
your have listed below, right?
Which package[s] is[are] good for Linux - i.e. Debian based ones like
Ubuntu and Linux Mint.
Is there any FREE ones that work well for Windows?
It would be real nice to get a Linux Box set up for a neighbor that is
blind - since I do not have a spare Windows system and she cannot afford
to buy the Windows OS like Win7. Be nice to have it set up for
"reading" e-books - in their epub format or converted to text - instead
of trying to find audio book copies. Of course you will need the voice
commands to run the system to get the "box" to find the book, play,
pause, stop, go back, etc.. That is what the speech recognition really
us needed.
On 12/02/2014 11:55 PM, Walther Koehler wrote:
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.
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