OK, where's our talking apps??

[Amedee Van Gasse]

On Thu, July 26, 2012 21:09, Ric Moore wrote:

> So, I found this:
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/vedics/
> ...which is a still in beta project by two college students that just
> about almost works. It won't work with XFCE that I can tell. It works
> with the gnome desktop. Java must be installed. I ran it directly from a
> terminal so I could see what it was doing. Microphone must be
> operational. It kinda hit and missed on my voice commands. I hardly got
> it doing much of anything. But, it almost did! Plus, the last update was
> about a year ago. Still, it shows promise!! I hope they get back to
> developing this or someone pick it up. There are youtube videos showing
> it working just fine on 10.4  just search on 'vedics linux'.  Pretty
> darn neat. Now, if it would talk back. Ric

There are probably lots of little projects that are in perpetual beta. I
wouldn't consider any one of them to be of the same production quality as
most Ubuntu software. Still, interesting to know about.