On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 3:45 AM, Rikard Johnels
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 23:37, Donald D Henson wrote:
Does anyone know of an Open Source application to accept continuous speech and convert it to text? I've found a couple of proprietary apps but you have to use Voice mail as an input. Any suggestions appreciated.
Don Henson
A few years back there was something called ViaVioce from IBM (i think) I never got that to work, and as far as i know its been discontinued for ages... I havent seen any speech-to-text utilities for linux, nor for windows too for that matter. The last time i saw it was on my brothers Amiga way back in the early days. He actually had it responding to voicecommands. And there was also a simple voicerecognition software bundled with a SoundBlaster sound card at one point. But that vas a very long time ago.
I too would love to have speech-to-text, as i am LOUSY at speed typing, and as i sometimes tell short stories to my friends, it would be heaven to be able to get them into printed matter...
I think in Windows "Dragon NaturallySpeaking" is the leading solution. I don't use it so no firsthand feedback here. http://nuance.com/naturallyspeaking/ A little history of products (including some OSS ones) and whats available is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_speech_recognition_software Greg -- Greg Freemyer Litigation Triage Solutions Specialist http://www.linkedin.com/in/gregfreemyer First 99 Days Litigation White Paper - http://www.norcrossgroup.com/forms/whitepapers/99%20Days%20whitepaper.pdf The Norcross Group The Intersection of Evidence & Technology http://www.norcrossgroup.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org