[vox] Hate typing?

Ryan vox@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 14 Mar 2004 22:13:31 -0800


On Sunday 14 March 2004 09:47 pm, Bill Kendrick nbs-at-sonic.net |lugod|=20
wrote:
> I just got some spam apparently offering speech recognition software.
> That made me wonder, has anyone here used any under Linux?
> (Commercial, Open Source or otherwise)
>
> If so, how hard was it to set up?  What were your results?
>
>
> I know there are a few projects working on 'accessibility' for Linux
> in general (e.g., Sun's work on Gnome and KDE's own mini-project).
>
> Also, IBM apparently used to offer some speech recognition software for
> Linux that came with a headset.
>
> (I spoke with a rather cranky fellow at an IBM booth at some
> conference who complained that Linux users never wanted to PAY for
> software, and that's apparently why they cancelled the Linux version of
> the product... >:^P )

ViaVoice. I have a copy. Never got it working, though.

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