VEDICS Speech Assistant

[Kenny Hitt]

Hi.  

On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 04:21:53PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> On 5/21/2010 11:04 AM, Nischal Rao wrote:
<snip>

> >
> > Currently the software doesn't support the dictation facility. However,
> > we are planning to add this feature in the future.
> > The best part of this software is that it is speaker independent, no
> > training is required and it can recognize words not present in the
> > English dictionary.
> >
> > Currently it works well on ubuntu 9.10 and ubuntu 10.04
> >
> > You can find the source code at : http://sourceforge.net/projects/vedics/
> 
> very nice.  have you thrown away your keyboard yet?  please do so and send a 
> message to the list without keyboard.
> 
Before you post such a negative message, you should really read first.
This is not even a stable tarball release yet.  The author stated clearly
dictation wasn't available, but is planned to be added.
If he had claimed that you could do dictation, your post would make since, but since
he didn't, you look like a winy ass.
When a project like this is still at such an early stage, bad attitude will cause a developer
to wonder if the trouble is really worth it.

One note to those people who have recently started to get a ubuntu accessibility group going again:
you really need to subscribe to gnome-accessibility.  All the developments in accessibility are happening
in upstream gnome and not ubuntu.
There was a more complete discussion about this particular app on gnome-accessibility.

          Kenny