Linda Walsh wrote:
Donald D Henson wrote:
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 couple of weeks ago it was suggested that I try a product from Nuance call dragon Naturally Speaking. As this was a non-open source product, I had to pay for it. Bummer. However, my problem was serious enough that I decided to go with a product that I had to pay for. I also promised the list that I would post a review after using the product for a couple of weeks. Here's the review.
How is it on resources? I.e. memory and cpu? Last I used drag-in-dict, it was ages ago -- before it allowed continuous speech recognition -- but even then, after training, it still was pretty slow. <<snip>>
Not being a Windows guy, I don't know how to check the actual numbers. Let me answer this way. I'm running Dragon on a Dell Inspiron 1501 laptop. The laptop is running Windows XP Pro service pack 2. It has a Sempron Processor 3500+, running at 1.79 GHz. The laptop has 512 MBytes of RAM and a 60 GByte primary drive of which 41 GBytes is available. Performance is not state-of-the-art but is not bad for a laptop. Using the above platform, Dragon's performance is "adequate". By that I mean that it's fast enough that I use it quite a bit but it would be nice if it were faster. ("More power. egh. egh. egh." - Tim Allen) If you have a serious need, Dragon is your only choice, as far as I know. Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org