Re: New to List

[William Best <standard7452 gmail com>]

Eric,

I would love to help you with your project where I can.  My strengths are not in writing code per se, but I understand the issues you face.  I work with 120 individuals with all forms of disabilities.

How successful have you been with using voice recognition using Windows?  I have had limited success with voice recognition technology in my work.  This is mostly due to the people who have physical disabilities have cerebral palsy which also presents speech problems in these cases.

Access is difficult for folks with disabilities, and my goal is to collaborate with others to create open source versions of some very expensive propriety software systems.  

Could you send a video of you using your setup so I can visualize it?

Thanks!

Will

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:06 AM Eric Johansson <esj eggo org> wrote:

Welcome to the list. I joined because I am disabled and unfortunately the accessibility models currently available do not help me in the slightest. I was hoping to find the time to serve my own needs which I know would serve the needs of other people like myself with upper extremities disabilities and dependent on speech recognition.

Best laid plans etc cetera. :-)

Here's where I'm at and I could use some help.

the only really useful speech recognition environment right now is nuances naturally speaking followed closely by Microsoft. obviously the main problem is they only run on Windows.

I have set up a prototype of a working environment where I run Windows as a virtual machine dedicated solely to speech recognition. Then I have a bridge which transfers key codes or other types of speech events over to Linux from windows. Right now, I've been somewhat successful with injecting speech generated characters into Linux applications. I'm working on the next generation now and running into problems with uinput.  as soon as i fix those problems, using the community developed macro environment, we will have a reasonably useful speech recognition system driving Linux.

What I mean by reasonably useful is that I can drive emacs, write prose and a bit of code. With any luck, that would only be a stone's throw away from being able to execute code on the Linux side as a result of interpreting a grammar on the Windows side. The remote execution capability would put us on a parity with what's available on Windows.

Anyway, if you'd like to help, I would welcome assistance.



On May 29, 2015 8:29 AM, William Best <standard7452 gmail com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My name is William Best.  I am not sure if this is the right group to join
> for how I would like to contribute.
>
> My passion/career involves helping people with developmental disabilities
> get better access to technology.  Over the past year or so, I have been
> experimenting with different Linux distributions to come up with a
> low-cost, stable, and robust solution for the disabled people I work with.
>
> My goal is to help get features/apps that would help disabled people access
> technology in a better way.
>
> Let me know if I am in the right group for this.
>
> Thanks!