voice activated app yet?

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 08:18 -0500, geoffrey froner wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Scott Berry <sberry at northlc.com>
> wrote:
>         Hi Charley,
>         
>         I am sorry but you have made an incorrect assumption.  Orca is
>         a screen
>         reading piece of software in otherwords it takes what is off
>         the screen and
>         turns it in to voice it does not take voice and turn it in to
>         text.  I am
>         totally blind myself and use it.  That's why I had to make the
>         correction.
>         
>         Scott Berry
>         Email: sberry at northlc.com
>         
>         
>         
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
>         [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of
>         Charlie Kravetz
>         Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 11:20 AM
>         To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
>         Subject: Re: voice activated app yet?
>         
>         
>         On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:39 -0500, geoffrey froner wrote:
>         > Is there as yet a voice actuated program for Linux similar
>         to
>         > DragonSpeak?
>         >
>         > Geoffrey
>         Under the Gnome desktop, there is Orca, part of the assistive
>         technology
>         progamming. For more information, check out
>         http://live.gnome.org/Orca
>         
>         I believe this is similar to DragonSpeak in Windows desktop
>         
>         good luck,
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> 
> So  how do you, if you do, turn your voice into text?
> 
> Geoffrey

I stand corrected. Orca will not work for this. 

good luck,

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Charlie Kravetz 
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