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Re: To be M$ free....



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On 03/10/07 13:54, Don Hayward wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a friend who would like to get away from Microsoft system
> dependence.  The show stopper seems to be voice recognition.  She is
> partially disabled and needs Naturally Speaking or equivalent.  She
> uses it for live dictation as well as recording to a digital recorder
> followed by transcription.

My uncle is not disabled but uses DNS a lot.

> 
> Are there any open source equivalents to NS?

Nothing remotely usable by anyone but a dedicated propeller head.

> If not, does anyone know of a successful use of NS under wine?
>  
> If not, might xen or some other virtualizer be the answer?  Could she
> move files from one virtual machine to another?

Both would suck up too much of the host's resources.

> Thanks for any insight and advice.

If she really needs VR, then she's stuck with MS Windows.


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