Thanks, Sascha, but that's actually the inverse of what I'm looking for; I want to talk to the computer, rather than have the computer talk to me. Paul. On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 13:57, Sascha Retzki wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 11:03 +0100, Paul Furness wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I was just wondering if anyone has any recent experience with speech > > recognition software for linux? I spend a long time on Google looking, > > but all the pages written about this seem to be at least 18 months old, > > and an awful lot of it seems to rely on ViaVoice, which doesn't appear > > to be available for linux any more. Not only that, but all the open > > source speech rec engines seem to have stopped development in about > > 2002. > > > > Anyone know of anything current? > > > MBROLA used to work quite well, festival can use it to say stuff via > commandline. (AFAIK mbrola is just an engine). It was, btw, able to > pronounce my first name "sascha" without "much" problems ;).. so it is > quite good. I knew some blind guy used it to work with linux. > > > Thanks. > > > > Paul. > > > > - > > : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in > > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > > > > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
