Re: IBM just announced speech recognition: was (Re: gnome andhandicapped access..)

[bratsche dfw net]

This is really cool news. I'm downloading the SDK right now. =)  It's a 40
meg download, so I probably won't get to actually look at it until later
tonight.

On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Ryan Leduc wrote:

> Check out:  http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990426/ny_ibm_1.html
> 
> IBM's viaVoice  speech recognition technology is available for the Linux
> operating environment.  You'll be able to get it from redhat..
> 
> I think a nice plugin API might be nice..  This should be a priority
> since we all use a computer a lot, and it is important to give our
> hands  a break..
> 
> Or the gnome developers may not be able to develop anymore..  ;-)
> 
> Ryan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> bratsche@dfw.net wrote:
> > 
> > Something like this would be great, and it's been discussed on the mailing
> > lists in the past. It's probably a very low priority, and with good
> > reason. For one thing, there aren't any good and free speech recognition
> > programs that GNOME could use. Development of such software requires very
> > detailed and specific knowledge that most people don't have experience in,
> > so it's unlikely that anyone will be able to write a custom speech
> > recognition system for GNOME. The generic plugin approach is the only
> > feasible option, but there's really no point in this right now: there are
> > no good speech recognition programs for unix at all right now, and it
> > would be pointless to create a plugin API for a set of applications that
> > don't exist yet. Maybe if someone can coerce IBM to port VoiceType to
> > Linux or to open source it. =)
> > 
> > Cody
> > 
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Ryan Leduc wrote:
> > 
> > > Something like speech recognition for gnome would be a godsend at the
> > > moment ;-)  (I think a general api would be good, so that different
> > > systems can be provide the core recognition..)
> 
> 
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