On 4/30/2011 3:26 AM, Boris wrote: > I can tell you this about Dragon Natually Speaking: > One of my clients decided for this speech recognition (against my > suggestion). The speech recognition worked astonishingly well but the > software made the XP unstable. The support of the company which sold it > did not manage to make it stable - with a lot of effort. Finally the > client went back to hacking in the text in traditional way on a stable > system without speech recognition. > > Motivated by this, I started trying with simon-listens.org on Debian > Lenny but didn't made it working because of some different problems.... > I'd like to revitalize this project! > > by the way: I'm writing about German language....
I've been trying to make speech recognition work in or with virtual machines for a very long time. It's never worked except once in vmware version 4 desktop. 90% of the time the problem is the audio. For some reason, (and I haven't tried this with the latest virtual box), audio is always garbled going into the virtual machine. Doesn't matter if it's from the soundcard under desktop machine or from a USB device. It's always garbled. As a result, speech recognition doesn't work very well. With the latest virtual box I discovered quite by accident that I could dictate text into a Linux virtual machine with the short tests I performed, it seemed to work okay but I'm sure there are other problems waiting to bite us. If you want the project to work on to improve speech recognition capability with a virtual machine environment you need to build a bridge that will tell NaturallySpeaking which grammar to use for a given window and do all of the necessary functionality like a dictation box or possibly Select-and-Say. It won't be easy. Nuance is loath to give anybody information about how to interface with NaturallySpeaking. I suspect they just want to keep all the business for themselves and maximize their income. We have some information but the API is always at risk of going away because it's not officially supported. It's really kind of twisted because they claim to be a tool for accessibility yet they don't make it possible for disabled people to take care of their own needs. Another example from nuances cluelessness is that they have a very expensive (roughly $300 premium) macro environment based on Visual Basic. They don't provide you with an IDE, they don't let you add in an IDE, and, the environment cannot be driven by speech which means if you disabled, you can't use it. At least our current Python-based tools can be driven by speech reasonably well without extensive modifications of a programming environment. so if you want to build a bridge, I can help with information and pointers to people but I can't write much code myself because my hands are broken. --- eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ WhatsUp Gold - Download Free Network Management Software The most intuitive, comprehensive, and cost-effective network management toolset available today. Delivers lowest initial acquisition cost and overall TCO of any competing solution. http://p.sf.net/sfu/whatsupgold-sd _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
