Linux Speech Recognition and screen readers
Greetings: I have the been handed the most interesting challenge of preparing 3 IBM Laptops for a blind charity organization. The request is to have the laptops deploy some form of voice driven mechanism that allows for both input and output to and by the end user. They have left the door open as to base operating system and applications. I other words I am allowed to play..:) I would like to impliment and test this out in a complete linux solution based on SuSE 8.1 (or other ver.) As I have just started the research into this entire effort (I know absolutely nothing on this subject at this time) and as I would like to cut down some time I was wondering if anyone has been down this road befor or alternatively some recommendations as to URL for further research/reading and or applications that folks have actually used in this setting. Thanks for any assistance sent this way as its appreciated. Best Chris H.
Chris H wrote:
this road befor or alternatively some recommendations as to URL for further research/reading and or applications that folks have actually used in this setting.
On February 28, 2003 12:35 pm, sjb wrote:
Chris H wrote:
this road befor or alternatively some recommendations as to URL for further research/reading and or applications that folks have actually used in this setting.
Thanks for both references. Any one played with blink and or emacspeeck.?? /ch
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:29:26 -0500 Chris H <chris123@magma.ca> wrote:
Greetings:
I have the been handed the most interesting challenge of preparing 3 IBM Laptops for a blind charity organization. The request is to have the laptops deploy some form of voice driven mechanism that allows for both input and output to and by the end user. They have left the door open as to base operating system and applications. I other words I am allowed to play..:)
For making the computer talk, go to http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/flite/ Festival is a big c++ package which allows you to select and create different voices. Works great. But I would go to "flite", which is the same thing as Festival, only done in pure c for speed. The latest version works great on suse. The latest version runs very fast, and has a VERY good talking clock demo. The clock voice is near perfect. The flite program will read really fast, and the developers are working on new voices. To read a file: "flite filename" -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
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