I am handicapped and it is hard for me to to use the keyboard. It would be great to handle it via voice like others do.
Win* has Dragn nat speak* .
Mac has Macspee*.
:shame:
It’s is a pity that the Linux community stays here offside. My researches has show me that there are some few never ending projects or others with dead ends. I and a lot of other SUSE users in my neighborhood would appreciate any suggests of a stable program that works for handling SUSE(KDE) and let them dictate some text.
to answer the question of the subject: is voice-to-text forgotten? i
think the answer has to be:
No, not forgotten but no one has yet arrived at the point which
Hollywood has (it just works, HAL understands perfectly everyone and
anyone who talks)
wiki says: “There is currently no open-source equivalent of
proprietary speech recognition software (e.g. Nuance’s Dragon
NaturallySpeaking or Windows Speech Recognition) for GNU/Linux.
However, there are several incomplete, open-source projects and
solutions that could be used to attain some elements of speech
recognition in the free operating system. It is also possible to use
Windows speech recognition software under GNU/Linux.”
cite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_in_Linux
so, give your “Dragn nat speak*” a spin in WINE, maybe?
and, have been through all of these voice/speech-to-text (yes, i know
are text-to-speech apps on the same page)
and, IBM has spent millions (at least) developing their ViaVoice, it
is available for Linux…some folks were getting good results from it
in the mid-'90s so it should make happy, except for the cost:
and, by the way, you start your note with “Dear Developers” and i
guess you need to know two things:
any developers you are likely to run into here are openSUSE or KDE
developers…they would be making the underlying bits that allow any
of those applications above to work…
that by and large the developers are almost never in these
forums…so, if you wanna be directly in contact with the openSUSE
developers you need to go where they are, IRC and mail lists
if you want to interface directly with those who ARE working to let
you talk to HAL (like in the movies) you need to reach out to the
developers of the many packages referenced above…
Mr. Palladium,
thanks for your answer. The Hollywood/movies and the developers hints are not necessary. It sounds just arrogant. I am handicapped but not stupid.
As mentioned I have researched. That means to read Wikipedia, Google, history, technical background, requierements, current stage of technology, providers,…and so on.
What you tell me is all nice and very educational. But, it’s not helpful at all.
To be clear: My converted handicapped SUSE buddies and I are looking for a working native solution that enables 1. Voice Control (for the OS) and/or 2. Dictation (Text).
No win solutions in wine, virtualbox, vmware, qemu, XEN and so on…*
Here’s a user that compiled gnome-voice-control. only 32bit. You may also want to post a program request at openFATE. Linux distro’s IMHO should provide functionality like this.
I’ll report the post, to draw some attention from the other mods.
ortsiger wrote:
> It sounds just arrogant. I am handicapped but not stupid.
> not helpful at all
i’ve been quite interested in voice-to-speech since i first saw the
movie _2001: A Space Odyssey" when it first ran in 1968…i really
think that Kubrick classic has spurred thousands of developer to
emulate HAL, and they have consistently been surprised at the utter
complexity of human speech and worn their fingers to nubs typing code
and trying to make it ‘just work’
but, despite millions, they have continually failed to deliver…
sorry that my attempt at summarizing what i know about voice-to-speech
from 40 years of observation since the movie “was not helpful at all”…
i repeat: the IBM’s ViaVoice which IS available for linux was pretty
good 15 years ago, and will probably make you as happy as anything
available, anywhere… [by the way HAL is one letter before IBM]
and well, i must say that since you posted to “Forums Comments
/Suggestions - Comments and/or suggestions about the openSUSE forums”
i got confused and thought maybe you also had a reading or learning
disability or otherwise you would have asked in “Applications” or
“Looking For Something Other Than Support?” or even “General Chit-Chat
A friendly place to converse about your adventures with openSUSE, your
weekend, your boss, your new car, and generally stuff that doesn’t fit
somewhere else (and we must ask: PLEASE do not post help questions here)”
i’ll not bother you again with help attempts nor take the chance of
side-swiping with perceived arrogance…
Good News: In my searches I’ve find an interesting possibility that should be shared with others. Simon - is in development for physically disabled people to give them the possibility to chat, to write e-mails, to surf the internet, to do internet-banking and much more. This project seems to be active and really far.
The components for the installation have mixed license models and you need to be registered. I will try as soon as I can to install it and post here my experiences. If this works, it will give thousands of people a significant help. And I mean not only the disabled. :shake:
@ortsiger: I took a look at the ‘Simon’ site. It looks active and alive indeed. I don’t have the time now, but will definitely dive into this later on this week. Great you found it. From what it looks like now, it’s already quite far, might even do what you need most.
Please keep us posted on your results, and be sure to come here in case of trouble/problems. We have oldcpu as our sound specialist, there’s over 40.000 others that may be able to help.
IMHO bringing this to our attention is your first major contribution to the community.
I have it installed now (picked the 64bit rpm, version 0.2), can startup the (nice Qt4) interface. If the program is as good as the looks, this is very promissing.
In my searches I’ve find an interesting possibility that should be shared with others. Simon - is in development for physically disabled people to give them the possibility to chat, to write e-mails, to surf the internet, to do internet-banking and much more. This project seems to be active and really far.