Scott Ferguson wrote:
On 20/02/14 01:20, Richard Owlett wrote:I want essentially a note taking tool.Assuming you mean speech to text....
Explicitly.
NO interest in voice activated control. A brief search indicated voice recognition is an active project under Debian accessibility. What I found was developer oriented. I'm looking for fairly basic information aimed at prospective user.Good luck - it's a complex subject developed by "need to scratch", which means that it's unlikely "simple dictation" is the primary development objective.
Yepp!I was trying to differentiate my preferences from mass market products such as Dragon Naturally Speaking.
I've casually followed speech recognition since the 70's, though have never actually used it. The goals of CMU Sphinx far exceed how I'd actually use it. [E.G. I don't need speaker independence, continuous recognition, nor real time.Most of those capabilities are necessary in order to recognise words.
Not historically true. My original interest was sparked by a MIT post-doc friend who was doing speech recognition circa 1972 using a DEC KI-10 (I was in DEC's power supply engineering department at the time.)
I'm not sure if "large vocabulary" would be a requirement.] Initially I intend to use Wheezy on a Lenovo R61 Thinkpad with a yet to be specified USB input device. The laptop will not be running any other application while voice recognition is being used. Pointers please. Thank you.AFAIK Simon is the only real candidate for your stated requirements. http://grasch.net/node/19 Note that it uses CMU Sphinx so I guess your stuck with something that isn't stripped down to suit your (perceived?) requirements. Still undergoing development and yet to match a commercial product I use in WINE. http://grasch.net/projects OS speech to text is something I'm interested in, so I'd appreciate any new information you discover. Kind regards
Thanks for the links. I've only had a chance to glance at them so far. Weekends are for following chains of links.