Re: Slightly OT - Speech recognition

[Paul Furness <paul.furness@vil.ite.mee.com>]

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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