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Idea #1826: Increase accessibility with voice recognition



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Written by TeyeDoubleGuhRrr the 29 Feb 08 at 21:08. Category: Others.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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Having the ability to control the Ubuntu / Kubuntu interface via voice commands and the ability to dictate into applications would contribute immensely to the accessibility of the product.

Currently the Sphinx project of CMU (http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php) is one of the better known open-source speech recognition projects. Perhaps working with them to enhance their functionality would be beneficial to the Ubuntu meme as a whole.
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robin wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 21:25
I voted in favor, even though gnome-voice-control already exists and is available in the ubuntu repositories. However everyone who is interested in this functionality should go to http://www.voxforge.org/ and submit speech.

Without enough (GPL) speech speech recognition on linux will simply not happen even though there are many people out there who'd like to use speech recognition and there are programs out there too.

We need training data!!! I submitted hours myself, but we need many voices to make it 'speaker independent' and lots of speech per speaker helps as well. This is not something ubuntu can do for you without your speech.

ethana2 wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 09:01
Finally, someone else sees it. *votes up*
You just saved me five minutes.

Not only do we need them, they need us. Get Ubuntu users involved. I think most of us are capable of talking. The more ways to contribute, the better!

Get festival in too.

jogo wrote on the 10 Mar 08 at 15:38
I dont linke gvc style, I would like more a voice control just based on the user like cvoicecontrol. And then you dont need speech libraries.

pierre.slamich@gmail.com wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 23:40
-Packaging Quickstart from http://www.voxforge.org/ would greatly help getting an open corpus.

-Simon Listens is a promissing effort: http://simon-listens.org/

-GnomeVoiceControl seems to be making progress , but on a slowish basis


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