Speech recognition

[Geoffrey Bays]

Dotan:

Check out this article in the NY Times from 2006 on Dragon's Naturally
Speaking 9. Around 99.4 % accuracy, and that was two years ago.


http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9806E5D6163FF933A15754C0A
9609C8B63&scp=1&sq=dragon%20nuance%209.0&st=cse

Yes, you can have a secretary in your PC, but we want a Kubuntu
version. That may not exist.
wine or win4lin may be the only way to do it.

At http://appdb.winehq.org/  you can check for how well windows apps
run on Wine.
Dragon Naturally speaking version 9 is rated a 'silver', meaning that
it runs very well with some configuration.

Cheers,

Geoffrey Bays

On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/7/3 David Fletcher <kubuntu-users at thefletchers.net>:
>> I suspect this is a long shot:-
>>
>> Does anybody know of any speech recognition software that can be used with
>> Kubuntu?
>>
>> I have an acquaintance who has never owned a computer, but wants to use one to
>> write a book. He can be nudged in the direction of using Kubuntu and LaTeX I
>> think, but he says he's not got time to type it. He wants to dictate it
>> directly into the text editor.
>>
>> Does anybody know of any applications that can do this please? I've tried all
>> the search strings I can think of in the Adept installer, and Google has
>> turned up nothing for me.
>>
>
> He wants a secretary, not a computer. Speech recognition is used for
> sending preconfigured commands to the computer, not for dictating
> arbitrary text. For instance, while your friend might dictate one
> character discussing a new display with another character, the reader
> might be surprised to see the characters discussing a nudist play.
>
> Dotan Cohen
>
> http://what-is-what.com
> http://gibberish.co.il
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>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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