Re: Slightly OT - Speech recognition

[Andrew Kelly <akelly@transparency.org>]

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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