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 <div>On 21/02/07, Jan Claeys <<a href="mailto:lists@janc.be">lists@janc.be </a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">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 > <a href="http://www.hi2u.org/discussions/voice4linux.htm">http://www.hi2u.org/discussions/voice4linux.htm</a> > > 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: <<a href="http://taint.org/wk/ViaVoiceModernLinux">http://taint.org/wk/ViaVoiceModernLinux </a>> OTOH, it seems like ViaVoice still exists for Linux, but they don't sell any consumer products using it: <<a href="http://www-306.ibm.com/software/pervasive/embedded_viavoice_multiplatform/">http://www-306.ibm.com/software/pervasive/embedded_viavoice_multiplatform/ </a>> -- Jan Claeys -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility"> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility</a> </blockquote></div>