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

[Ryan Leduc <leduc control toronto edu>]

Check out:  http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/990426/ny_ibm_1.html

IBM's viaVoice  speech recognition technology is available for the Linux
operating environment.  You'll be able to get it from redhat..

I think a nice plugin API might be nice..  This should be a priority
since we all use a computer a lot, and it is important to give our
hands  a break..

Or the gnome developers may not be able to develop anymore..  ;-)

Ryan




bratsche@dfw.net wrote:
> 
> Something like this would be great, and it's been discussed on the mailing
> lists in the past. It's probably a very low priority, and with good
> reason. For one thing, there aren't any good and free speech recognition
> programs that GNOME could use. Development of such software requires very
> detailed and specific knowledge that most people don't have experience in,
> so it's unlikely that anyone will be able to write a custom speech
> recognition system for GNOME. The generic plugin approach is the only
> feasible option, but there's really no point in this right now: there are
> no good speech recognition programs for unix at all right now, and it
> would be pointless to create a plugin API for a set of applications that
> don't exist yet. Maybe if someone can coerce IBM to port VoiceType to
> Linux or to open source it. =)
> 
> Cody
> 
> On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Ryan Leduc wrote:
> 
> > Something like speech recognition for gnome would be a godsend at the
> > moment ;-)  (I think a general api would be good, so that different
> > systems can be provide the core recognition..)


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