Voice Recognition for Linux

[Marvin Raaijmakers]

Try perl-box voice and then look how that program uses sphinx2.

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 21:03 +0000, Chris Hayes wrote:
> Thanks for those links Jan. I've decided that I'm gonna try to get one
> of the Sphinx voice recognition things working on my computer, so I
> can at least see how capable it is, and whether it could anything
> could be done to make the installation / training of it easier - so
> that more people could try it and eventually get more people involved
> in it.
> 
> I have no idea how realistic that idea is.
> 
> One problem to start off with - from what I can see, Sphinx 4 was just
> a way of delivering the Sphinx speech recognition to another audience
> by writing it in Java. Sphinx 3 is more up to date than Sphinx 2,
> however it is customised for batch processing of speech files I think.
> Eitherway - they both rely on Sphinxbase. So, basically, I'm
> interested in real-time speech recognition, Sphinx 2 hasn't been
> updated for over 1 year by the looks - but maybe that doesn't matter
> if Sphinxbase does most the work? 
> 
> Okay - basically, I don't know which version of Sphinx to try. And it
> looks pretty complicated and I don't really have the time to do this -
> so I certainly want to be doing it with the most appropriate edition. 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the feedback so far,
> 
> 
> Chris Hayes / CBHworld
> 
> 
> On 21/02/07, Jan Claeys <lists at janc.be> wrote:
>         On ma, 2007-02-19 at 18:17 +0000, Chris Hayes wrote:
>         > He does have a website however, and has started a kind of
>         discussion 
>         > thread on that - which is available through this link
>         > http://www.hi2u.org/discussions/voice4linux.htm
>         >
>         > If anyone has had any experience with voice recognition
>         software under 
>         > Linux or knows of any information about it - could you
>         please post
>         > something about it on my dad's discussion page about it -
>         or, if not -
>         > just reply to this telling me so I can do it.
>         
>         About ViaVoice, I found copies of the ViaVoice for Linux SDK &
>         runtime 
>         on some websites (but using them is probably not legal?), and
>         from what
>         I understand you need some additional old libraries to get
>         them running
>         too: <http://taint.org/wk/ViaVoiceModernLinux>
>         
>         OTOH, it seems like ViaVoice still exists for Linux, but they
>         don't sell
>         any consumer products using it:
>         <http://www-306.ibm.com/software/pervasive/embedded_viavoice_multiplatform/>
>         
>         
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