[ubuntu-uk] Speech Recognition

[Roy Jamison]

Actually in its defense, I have found Dragon NS to be quite surprisingly
accurate after 10-15 minutes of training, so I don't think the perfect
model is too far away, at least for closed-source payware. Open-source
I'm not too sure but there's always a negative spin every time this
subject pops up. I feel sad for the thousands of "accessibility needing"
end users who would rely on this technology to get through with using
PCs, and because of this slow(?) progression can't turn to Ubuntu/linux
just yet.

On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 22:18 +0100, Steve wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:08:45 +0100, Roy Jamison <xteejyx at googlemail.com>  
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all. Have been looking at the Ubuntu wiki and googled around for
> > quite a while trying to find an answer but there doesn't appear to be
> > anything concrete for linux regarding speech recognition programs.
> > I mean, there are developer-only orientated things like sphinx and
> > julius in our repos, but is there anything REALLY being worked on?
> > It'd be a real shame if we had to use Windows payware products to
> > accomplish something that we could probably build on at this stage,
> > albeit average quality, but wouldn't it be better to have *something*
> > rather than nothing?
> > Anyway, the Vista/Win7 recognition is really craptastic, we could esaily
> > do better!!
> > Would like to hear peeps comments on this!
> >
> >
> I think any attempt at a speech recognition system is an exercise in  
> futility.  I’ve never come across one that is anywhere near working and  
> given that humans have enough problems understanding each other at times,  
> I seriously a computer will ever manage.
> 
> -- 
> Steve (Yorvyk)
> http://lubuntu.net
>