Re: [seul-edu] Speech Recognition for Linux

[sala@cbint.org]

Kevin Brown was enlightened and wrote:
> 
> Hmm, maybe I wrote this from a wrong point of view. For a kid in school,
> this is a pretty good distraction. And, if you are not doing anything
> productive, I guess, depending on your personality, a little fun making a
> parot say anything (I tormented my sister with this feature....) is kind of
> fun. But when doing an assignment and wasting a whole hour talking to a
> paperclip is quite pathetic.

Thou art right :)

> 
> Right now, the Linux desktops (KDE and GNOME) are quite equivelent to
> Windows. But really, why switch when they are about the same to get around
> in. Linux needs to go beyond "eqivelent". Well, uhh, maybe a dancing paper
> clip isn't the right solution (as I learnt by posting this message). But
> maybe a WM that was designed for the internet ground up.

Linux is internet from the ground up, but i got your point. Have you
seen mozilla? The gecko engine can be used for almost any application,
it comes with an xterm! in mozilla! That could be what you're asking
for.

> And maybe, > integrate a speech recognition engine into it like ViaVoice (and if that is
> what emacspeak is, then maybe it too...). 

And yesterday in slashdot there was a talk about a star trek game that
will come with speech recognition, and some people said that if loki
makes a port, we might get another powerful speech recognition package,
seen that they release the tools they use, just that this one could be
easier to install.


> So this one extra step could cause
> Linux to become more popular in buisneses and school.

Good speech recognition? that would make us even more popular :)

> 
> When writing my original letter, maybe I wasn't thinking to clearly. And
> after reading through the MSAgent newgroup I became offended when some
> people were telling each other how "old of a technology," Netscape is. Now I
> am realizing the power of a stupid paperclip.

Thou hath seen the light :)

> 
> Kevin Brown.


And if intelligent agents is what you want, some crazy guys at the MIT,
the ones experimenting with wearables, are working on "remembrance
agents", that can lookup documents relevant to what you're doing. The
link is in http://rhodes.www.media.mit.edu/people/rhodes/RA/


When i build my wearable (i can dream :) i'll use this.


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