Hi Gary, I need a clarification if you would. I have downloaded and installed the correct blackdown java, and there's no difference for me over using Sun's newest. I'm using IBM's VV. What gets me is that the mike works fine for the first test setting up a user, but once it gets to where it actually starts listening for words, nothing whatsoever happens (it's ignoring me?). In your advice below, are you describing Mandrake's VV specifically? I've tried these commands and there's no way IBM's wants to work for me (after waiting two months for delivery). The only variance I've made from your instructions has been to alter the path for the current shell rather than system wide. This should set the path for all spawned processes, unless theres some daemon running somewhere that I don't know about. Also, when it says it's playing "music", i just get clicks. Soundcard is standard Creative SB, works beautifully. Where could I get the Mandrake version (outside of buying a mandrake box)? Dave On Wednesday 05 September 2001 10:31 am, Gary wrote:
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:48:29PM +1200 or thereabouts, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Has anyone played with IBM's viavoice speech recognition software on SuSE 7.2 yet? I am trying to get the rpms from mandrake 8.0 to go, but its java stuff tells me "sound system in use by another app" when that is definitely not the case.
I have it up and running, and although I have the IBM VV version, I also have the Mandrake version, which is what I installed on 7.2. The Mandrake runtime is just a little bit older, but it works find. The big thing that you must use is a different java. Mandrake uses IBMs, and you must use Blackdown's java, which is not included with Mandrake. Also, Mandrake seemed to have customized their version somewhat, as you do not have to do the following with their autosetup, but need to do them for all other distros.
Specifically, you need:
Java, version JRE-1.2.2 revision RC4 Install JAVA for Linux from the blackdown.org site. (http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html) The version of Java that was tested for this release was: JRE-1.2.2 revision RC4
Then you must make a path statement in /etc/profile.local for this JRE. It will not interfere with the other javas you have on board, at least it does not in my case.
Path statement is this:
export PATH=/<JREinstalledDir>/bin:$PATH
Once this is done, it will work. As always (I have used VV for quite some time now through many distros), you might have to fiddle with the sound mixer initially to get it working for the enrollment. I used kmix, but prefer aumix, and make sure mic is set for recording.
If you use any of the VV specialized vocabs, either legal or medical, I have ported over these from winders to linux too.