Re: [seul-edu] Speech Recognition for Linux

[Kevin Brown <dennis.brown@sympatico.ca>]

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.

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. And maybe,
integrate a speech recognition engine into it like ViaVoice (and if that is
what emacspeak is, then maybe it too...). So this one extra step could cause
Linux to become more popular in buisneses and school.

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.

Kevin Brown.

"S. Barret Dolph" wrote:

> On 17 May 2000, at 7:45, jherazo@geocities.com wrote:
> Is this a nightmare or am I really reading this??????????????
>
> > On 17-May-00 Kevin Brown wrote:
> > >     Quite lately, I had the dream of typing my note by talking.
> > >     Well, I
> > > was on the search for a free and flexible speech engine. Well, there
> > > was nothing that great I could find for Linux or even Windows.
> > > Emacspeak was hard to configure, it messed up my mouse while
> > > searching for COM ports, and ViaVoice was quite a large download for
> > > a 56k modem. But there was one piece of software for Windows that
> > > cought my eye but wounldn't work for my purpose either. It was MS
> > > Agent.
> >
> > Are you suggesting another excuse to get the paperclip here? Was Vigor
> > not enough? :)
> >
> > > A free way to interact with your
> > > computer using a microphone. What would happen is a little charector
> > > (Peedy has to be the best!) would sit there on your screen and the
> > > program that runs on top of ms-agent (agent is more like a library
> > > that other programs run on top of (actually an ActiveX control))
> > > would listen for keyboard, mouse and microphone input. This little
> > > charector would make the ease of use of your computer quite easy.
> >
> > In what way? A program distracting you and interfering with your real
> > work would somehow make it easier to work? Have you actualy used that
> > parrot while doing something important? I had to do it, and i ended
> > task-killing it (not just closing it) aftr it got to my nerves. I
> > mean, i`m trying to troubleshoot a weird windows problem in that
> > computer (modem gets disconnected everytime you try to send a message
> > on ICQ, why?), and that parrot starts making jokes! If that`s not
> > distracting, what is?
> >
> > > Since I try to stay away from MS products,
> >
> > I try to stay specially away from this
> >
> > > I was hopping something like this could be implemented in Linux.
> >
> > God help us if it`s possible :)
> >
> > > This would make the world of Linux a lot easier
> >
> > easier why?
> >
> > > and fun in schools.
> >
> >
> > The fun part i can`t refute, i think kids would love it, but....
> >
> > >
> > > Kevin Brown.
> > >
> > > MSAgent can be experimented with from
> > > http://msdn.microsoft.com/msagent/
> >
> > The pain of Vigor can be experimented with from
> > http://www.red-bean.com/~joelh/vigor/
> >
> > (You can get the idea of how useful could be an assistant)
> >
> >
> >
> > ----------------------------------
> > Jaime Herazo B.
> > E-Mail: jherazo@geocities.com
> > Date: 17-May-00
> > Time: 07:34:07
> >
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