Feature changed by: Peter Grasch (bedahr) Feature #309502, revision 2 Title: Improve accessibility for disabled users through speech recognition openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Peter Grasch (bedahr) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Linux accessibility has always been a bit of an issue. Recent GNOME releases are already quite good and include essential tools like the screen reader Orca. However, while alternative forms of input exist - for example in the form of an eye tracking controlled dasher, one of the most promising input method has been neglected: Speech recognition. I am the co-chairmen of the friendly society simon listens (http://simon-listens.org/) and for the past few years we have been working on an open source speech recognition solution called simon (http://sourceforge.net/projects/speech2text/) . simon is targeted towards physically disabled people and the elderly. I propose for Novell to partner with simon listens in a project to implement the necessary steps to make simon an integral component of the SUSE accessibility solutions. Business case (Partner benefit): - openSUSE.org: OpenSUSE Making OpenSUSE accessible through voice control - would make it easily accessible for a wide array of users who were - previously confined to proprietary systems where similar solutions - already exist. Suse Linux Enterprise Edition More and more public - institutions are considering moving to (enterprise) Linux - installations. Through professional support and high quality - distributions like SUSE Linux Enterprise Edition many were able to move - from more expensive and unstable proprietary systems to free and open - source software. However, some companies - and especially government - institutions - need to make their systems accessible to a wide array of - disabled users - in some contries this need is even enforced by law. - Making SLES, and on a larger scale GNU/Linux in general, more - accessible would open up these markets. + openSUSE.org: OpenSUSE : Making OpenSUSE accessible through voice + control would make it easily accessible for a wide array of users who + were previously confined to proprietary systems where similar solutions + already exist. + Suse Linux Enterprise Edition : More and more public institutions are + considering moving to (enterprise) Linux installations. Through + professional support and high quality distributions like SUSE Linux + Enterprise Edition many were able to move from more expensive and + unstable proprietary systems to free and open source software. However, + some companies - and especially government institutions - need to make + their systems accessible to a wide array of disabled users - in some + contries this need is even enforced by law. Making SLES, and on a + larger scale GNU/Linux in general, more accessible would open up these + markets. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309502