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

[Havoc Pennington <rhp zirx pair com>]

On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Elliot Lee wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, Bertrand Guiheneuf wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> Yea, you're right that it's not an easy project, but if someone doesn't
> put serious effort into it, it'll never get done.
>

Linux Today has an announce for some purportedly free "SpeechObjects"
code, it is in Java and Visual Basic or something but the hard part is the
algorithm - it could be copied to C. Of course I'm not optimistic that the
license will be friendly... code/license isn't actually available until
May.

Havoc