Voice Recognition for Linux

[Eric S. Johansson]

Chris Hayes wrote:
> Thanks or the feedback Eric. Is it really this hopeless? 

remember what I said about negative filtering.  :-)

If I had the time I would finish writing up my bit on the mediator and 
how it would work.  I believe it's eminently practical and even a good 
idea.  given enough hands, it's not that hard to complete relatively 
soon (i.e. under six months).  But well, I don't really have that good 
hands and code always takes me forever and a day to get done because it 
wears on my throat.

> You talked 
> about the Sphinx projects being okay - but not ready for normal users. 
> To what extent are they capable? I'd really love to know if you or 
> anyone else has tried them.

I'm sure there are others on the list to have tried and maybe even 
developed parts of them.  I'll let them out themselves.  :-)
> 
> I have looked into them but haven't had the time (and not being a very 
> capable technical user) to get them going, orto get them going nicely. 
> If I knew how well they worked, I'd probably be more inclined to use the 
> time I don't have getting them working.

your experience as part of the existence proof that they aren't ready 
for prime time.  The two reasons packages don't get used is that it's 
incomplete/not ready or it has poor PR.  I've been guilty of both of my 
projects :-)

---eric



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Speech-recognition in use.  It makes mistakes, I correct some.