Slightly OT - Speech recognition

Slightly OT - Speech recognition

[Paul Furness]

Hello.

I was just wondering if anyone has any recent experience with speech
recognition software for linux? I spend a long time on Google looking,
but all the pages written about this seem to be at least 18 months old,
and an awful lot of it seems to rely on ViaVoice, which doesn't appear
to be available for linux any more. Not only that, but all the open
source speech rec engines seem to have stopped development in about
2002.

Anyone know of anything current?

Thanks.

Paul.

Re: Slightly OT - Speech recognition

[Sascha Retzki]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 11:03 +0100, Paul Furness wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I was just wondering if anyone has any recent experience with speech
> recognition software for linux? I spend a long time on Google looking,
> but all the pages written about this seem to be at least 18 months old,
> and an awful lot of it seems to rely on ViaVoice, which doesn't appear
> to be available for linux any more. Not only that, but all the open
> source speech rec engines seem to have stopped development in about
> 2002.
> 
> Anyone know of anything current?
> 
MBROLA used to work quite well, festival can use it to say stuff via
commandline. (AFAIK mbrola is just an engine). It was, btw, able to
pronounce my first name "sascha" without "much" problems ;).. so it is
quite good. I knew some blind guy used it to work with linux.

> Thanks.
> 
> Paul.
> 
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Re: Slightly OT - Speech recognition

[Paul Furness]

Thanks, Sascha, but that's actually the inverse of what I'm looking for;
I want to talk to the computer, rather than have the computer talk to
me.

Paul.


On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 13:57, Sascha Retzki wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 11:03 +0100, Paul Furness wrote:
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I was just wondering if anyone has any recent experience with speech
> > recognition software for linux? I spend a long time on Google looking,
> > but all the pages written about this seem to be at least 18 months old,
> > and an awful lot of it seems to rely on ViaVoice, which doesn't appear
> > to be available for linux any more. Not only that, but all the open
> > source speech rec engines seem to have stopped development in about
> > 2002.
> > 
> > Anyone know of anything current?
> > 
> MBROLA used to work quite well, festival can use it to say stuff via
> commandline. (AFAIK mbrola is just an engine). It was, btw, able to
> pronounce my first name "sascha" without "much" problems ;).. so it is
> quite good. I knew some blind guy used it to work with linux.
> 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > Paul.
> > 
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Re: Slightly OT - Speech recognition

[Andrew Kelly]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 15:57, Paul Furness wrote:
> Thanks, Sascha, but that's actually the inverse of what I'm looking for;
> I want to talk to the computer, rather than have the computer talk to
> me.
> 
> Paul.


If this discussion moves off-list into private mail, I'd very much like
to be cc'd, and offer my thanks in advance.

Andy


> 
> On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 13:57, Sascha Retzki wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 11:03 +0100, Paul Furness wrote:
> > > Hello.
> > > 
> > > I was just wondering if anyone has any recent experience with speech
> > > recognition software for linux? I spend a long time on Google looking,
> > > but all the pages written about this seem to be at least 18 months old,
> > > and an awful lot of it seems to rely on ViaVoice, which doesn't appear
> > > to be available for linux any more. Not only that, but all the open
> > > source speech rec engines seem to have stopped development in about
> > > 2002.
> > > 
> > > Anyone know of anything current?
> > > 
> > MBROLA used to work quite well, festival can use it to say stuff via
> > commandline. (AFAIK mbrola is just an engine). It was, btw, able to
> > pronounce my first name "sascha" without "much" problems ;).. so it is
> > quite good. I knew some blind guy used it to work with linux.
> > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Paul.
> > > 
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> > > 
> > > 
> > 
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