From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sascha Retzki Subject: Re: Slightly OT - Speech recognition Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 14:57:33 +0200 Sender: linux-admin-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1094648253.360.2.camel@MEniac.net> References: <1094637805.15463.32.camel@zebra.vil.ite.mee.com> Reply-To: lantis@iqranet.info Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1094637805.15463.32.camel@zebra.vil.ite.mee.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Paul Furness Cc: linux-admin 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. > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > >