<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Scott Berry <<a href="mailto:sberry@northlc.com">sberry@northlc.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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: <a href="mailto:sberry@northlc.com">sberry@northlc.com</a> <div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"> -----Original Message----- From: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com</a>] 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 <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Orca" target="_blank">http://live.gnome.org/Orca</a> I believe this is similar to DragonSpeak in Windows desktop good luck, -- Charlie Kravetz Linux Registered User Number 425914 [<a href="http://counter.li.org/" target="_blank">http://counter.li.org/</a>] Never let anyone steal your DREAM. [<a href="http://keepingdreams.com" target="_blank">http://keepingdreams.com</a>] -- ubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users</a> </div></div></blockquote></div> So how do you, if you do, turn your voice into text? Geoffrey