Speech recognition - Was: Desktop froze

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 21 Jun 2023 at 13:19, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> there are things like https://cmusphinx.github.io/ and
> https://github.com/MycroftAI ... i used to work with the latter team
> for a while because they were planning to build an UbuntuCore based OSS
> "alexa" ... but sadly IBM bought them before the project finished, not
> sure what the state is today or if everything is even still OSS today
> ... (they started as a kickstarter project back in the days)

I did know about Mycroft, but not the former. I think it is one of
those things where it will come in time, but it may take quite a while
to catch up.

Sadly, IBM has a bad habit of acquiring very interesting open source
companies, absorbing them, and their products disappearing forever.

For example, some friends of mine worked with a remarkable product
called Rembo Toolkit. Little trace of it remains after it was bought
by IBM.

https://www.solvusoft.com/en/file-extensions/software/open-source/rembo-toolkit/

IBM is not alone in this of course: Sun Microsystems did the same.

> PS: and liam, get well soon, i hope to see you at the ubuntu summit in
> riga, so better get into an "able to travel" state til november so we
> can have beers ;)

Oh thank you very much indeed! I very much hope that I can be there. :-D

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