Is Linux a desktop operating system?
paul cooke
paul.cooke100 at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat May 28 06:41:47 UTC 2005
On Saturday 28 May 2005 00:03, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
> > Another area, to be sure, that needs someone(s) with experience to
> > produce a better answer in Linux.
>
> I spoke recently at a conference on Linux and speech recognition. There
> are two or three alternatives that might be good platforms for large
> vocabulary continuous speech recognition (i.e. what you need for
> dictating text). The problem is, it's going to be something on the
> order of $4-5 million to get close to being a full product. it would
> only cost a couple million dollars if we produced something akin to open
> source beta quality if we use something like the sphinx 4 engine. The
> hard part is the interface with applications so that you can perform
> certain operations on text buffers and make corrections and replacements.
I just wish IBM would get off their butts and resurrect ViaVoice or at least
donate it to the OSS community... my old copy that came with Mandrake 8 pro
ran fine... but that was yonks ago and they dropped it not long after.
That's what I really hate about closed source programs... when the producer
drops it... you're stuffed when you want to carry on running it on a more
recent version of OS or a service pack breaks it.
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