voice recognition (was: [...] X10 offer)

[David Guy Brizan <dbrizan@mr.net>]

> [....]  But I
> haven't found a free speech recognition software (like viavoice) that works
> on MS.  Is there any other speech recognition software for linux ?

Unni -- Do you mean "... that works on Linux"? If so, I agree. I think
it's cool that IBM is releasing their ViaVoice client for free, but I
don't know that I would use it if their training software isn't even
available for purchase.

Actually, three of my friends and I were talking about doing this. (One
is going blind, so he's interested in voice recognition and voice
synthesis software.) The problem, for me, is that if I put the effort
into this, I want it to be useful. I don't want IBM (or whichever large
company with a better reputation than a nerd working in his living room
while watching reruns of "Dharma and Greg") to release their full
product for free just to lure people away from my application-to-be.

(Is this a larger problem? Are we less willing to use mySQL since Oracle
released its database for free?) What do you folks think? Should I give
this a go anyway? If I do.... Does anyone know the procedure for
declaring my intention, so that I can get help if I need to? (Should I
never end a question with a preposition?) Should I speak with someone?
Who? Should I get sponsorship? From whom? Anyone want to help?

-- 

Nothing convinces me that computing is an art so much as a bad install.

David Guy Brizan          brizan@freenet.msp.mn.us          612-814-8223


Unni Nambiar wrote:
> 
> I got one too. Had no problem getting it working with BottleRocket.  I think
> I just had to change the serial device node hard coding.  It's a very simple
> program.  I tried the tk interface (RocketLauncher, i think), but it was
> kinda dumb.  I liked the command line better.  Just as a gimmick I've put it
> as cron jobs, so that the lights in my house come on and go off at scheduled
> intervals.
> 
> What i'm really interested in is, using IBM's ViaVoice (the *free* one we
> saw at RH Rev Tour) to interface with a listener (a deamon of somekind) that
> parses word strings received from viavoice and invokes appropriate
> bottlerocket commands.  Then all I would need would be, microphones in each
> room that can pick up the commands.  The guy at the ViaVoice booth said
> something about the speech recognition library being freely available for
> anyone to use.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone tried the ViaVoice pkg on the 3rd RH6.0 CD.  The
> readme says somewhere that it needs an mmx processor.  Unfortunately i've
> only got a P150.  Is this a requirement or a recommendation ? (i could check
> with ibm viavoice support, but ...)  What upsets me is that microsloth's
> speech engine (which is free btw) works on a lower configuration.  But I
> haven't found a free speech recognition software (like viavoice) that works
> on MS.  Is there any other speech recognition software for linux ?
> 
> Also, any ideas how i could go about getting microphones through out my
> house.  Like, how do they all connect to the sound card (right now i just
> have the single desktop mic) ?  Do we need to be able to differentiate
> between them ?  What if seperate mics pick up audio simultaneously ?  I have
> no clue what is involved here.
> 
> Any thoughts ?
> 
> TIA
> 
> -Unni
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