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Idea #13136: a speech recognition tool that is closely integrated with system

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #1826: Increase accessibility with voice recognition.
Written by bhuvi the 13 Sep 08 at 09:06. Category: Usability. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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a speech recognition tool that could be used to interact with all of the system components such as opening applications using voice commands,voice recognition as login password etc

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Written by bhuvi the 13 Sep 08 at 09:06.
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glotz wrote on the 13 Sep 08 at 09:13
http://www.voxforge.org/

Eldmannen wrote on the 13 Sep 08 at 13:22
This would be great for accessability and disabled people.
Coupled with a TTS speech synthesizer it could be pretty cool as it would allow two-way communication.

nandersson wrote on the 13 Sep 08 at 16:08
I think that Gnome has a plugin for this, but I didn't get it to work.

I work as a writer for Swedish TechWorld Open Source and I continously use the calculator, tomboy notes and the text editor.

I would very much like to start these apps by just saying:
"note"
"calc"
"text"

..or something like that. Would also be nice to be able to alt+tab with the voice

+1

Richard.Kolodziej wrote on the 13 Sep 08 at 18:00
Yes, this would be really nice espacially if speech2text were possible.

Right now there is no nearly functional voice recognition software existing for GNU/Linux. Many try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_speech_recognition_software but not one can be installed and used easily.

mixmax wrote on the 13 Sep 08 at 18:21
indeed, I tried with perlbox voice for Tk but since you cant train it, and english is my second language, it doesn't recognize anyting I say. If it could use spinx 3 or the voxforge project in place of sphinx2 it could be a good start. It has already got test to speach integrated...

Prominence wrote on the 14 Sep 08 at 05:05
I like this idea, and with the focus on ease, and usability, I think it could be great!


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