On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:48:29PM +1200 or thereabouts, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Has anyone played with IBM's viavoice speech recognition software on SuSE 7.2 yet? I am trying to get the rpms from mandrake 8.0 to go, but its java stuff tells me "sound system in use by another app" when that is definitely not the case.
I have it up and running, and although I have the IBM VV version, I also have the Mandrake version, which is what I installed on 7.2. The Mandrake runtime is just a little bit older, but it works find. The big thing that you must use is a different java. Mandrake uses IBMs, and you must use Blackdown's java, which is not included with Mandrake. Also, Mandrake seemed to have customized their version somewhat, as you do not have to do the following with their autosetup, but need to do them for all other distros. Specifically, you need: Java, version JRE-1.2.2 revision RC4 Install JAVA for Linux from the blackdown.org site. (http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux.html) The version of Java that was tested for this release was: JRE-1.2.2 revision RC4 Then you must make a path statement in /etc/profile.local for this JRE. It will not interfere with the other javas you have on board, at least it does not in my case. Path statement is this: export PATH=/<JREinstalledDir>/bin:$PATH Once this is done, it will work. As always (I have used VV for quite some time now through many distros), you might have to fiddle with the sound mixer initially to get it working for the enrollment. I used kmix, but prefer aumix, and make sure mic is set for recording. If you use any of the VV specialized vocabs, either legal or medical, I have ported over these from winders to linux too. -- Best regards, Gary