saschag@vzinet.com (Sascha Graeber) writes:
Does anybody have experience with Speech Recognition under Linux ? I'd like to hear about it since I'm a _very_ lazy person :-)
A good user and pretester, who contributed for years, suddenly started to send short messages, badly presented and with rather horrible spelling, begging for my help about recovering a damaged tape. When I asked what was happening, he explained me that something big happened to him, in such a way that he had to drop Unix and revert to Windows for speech recognition. What he described to me was frightening. First of all, he was sorely lacking Unix, and lived Windows a deep misery. He told me that he tries each message 20 times before he get something vaguely sendable, and was very conscious and humiliated by the lack of quality, but had no choice to the force the message out, at some given time, hopeless of doing better. Most previous simple thing was taking him an inordinate time to achieve. Even if starving to learn how to be more efficient with all this, he knew he had a very long way to go. I did not receive news from him for a good while now. But remained that impression that speech recognition is a big handicap, and hardly an help. Only trekkies would truly believe it could be the paradise of laziness. :-) -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/