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

[Xun Cheng <xun cs ucsb edu>]

yes, I have tried it. Good enough for issuing commands without
parameters. I can use it to open an xterm, start emacs etc.

A real powerful speech recognition should be able to
write essays through microphone.


xun


> However, there is already some KDE-related voice recognition, has 
> anyone tried this?

>   subject: KVoiceControl 0.16
>  added by: Frederic L.W.Meunier (fredlwm) on Mar 10th 1999, 21:52
>   license: GPL
>  category: KDE/Applications

>  homepage: http://www.kiecza.de/daniel/kde/index.html
>  download: http://www.kiecza.de/daniel/kde/kvoicecontrol-0.16.tar.gz
> changelog: http://www.kiecza.de/daniel/kde/NEWS

> description:
> KVoiceControl is a speech recognition system that allows the user to
> connect spoken commands to unix commands. It automagically detects
> signals coming from a microphone then performs recognition on this
> speech input and in case of successful recognition executes the unix
> command the user hooked up to it.