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

[Bertrand Guiheneuf <Bertrand Guiheneuf inria fr>]

Hi Elliott,

There are quite a lot of projects to create a Free Software speech recognition
system. But Speech Recognition is not computer science: you need 
a lot of experience before you can even achieve what was done in the 80's

IMHO, the most advanced  project is :
http://www.isip.msstate.edu/projects/speech_recognition/index.html

They focused on phone converation recognition, and will have a working version
in May. However, their softwares are written in C++ and still seem to need
a lot of memory. They made a generic API in order to allow projects like Gnome
to be able to integrate their tools easily.

There is also a speech recognition system made by a German guy which was
planned to  adapted for KDE. Unfortunately, sources are not available.

Best regards,

	Bertrand