Re: gnome and handicapped access..

[Edward Dunagin <edunagin columbus rr com>]

didnt ibm just announce their viavoice for linux and redhat will be
distributing it in 6.0...

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 bratsche@dfw.net wrote:

> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 01:39:45 -0400 (EDT)
> From: bratsche@dfw.net
> To: Ryan Leduc <leduc@control.toronto.edu>
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> Subject: Re: gnome and handicapped access..
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> 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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