EventHorizon

so i was bored once upon a time and i got a cool little HP netbook and put Ubuntu on it. since i write my squadron's weekly newsletter, i thought it'd be easier to just speak to my computer through my bluetooth and have it type what i dictated.

so i google'd it. (since when has "google" become a verb anyways?) the most sophisticated thing i could find was a program called Julius. however, when i click it or run it or anything, it does nothing except make my roommates think i'm out of my mind for talking to my computer.

i realize its a little sad that i need to talk to my computer but can someone help me fix this?

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Willravel

That technology really is in its infancy, still. I had an app on my iPad that was pretty decent, but even with that I still had to go back and do a great deal of editing and I have a pretty clear speaking voice and non-regional diction. I'll keep an eye open for anything new, but for now you may be relegated to typing. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

EventHorizon

frankenstien's monster is to humans as this speech recognition software is to Dragon NS. i've heard that if i run Dragon NS on Ubuntu using Wine that it causes mild catastrophes.

would there be any way to do the programming equivalent of stitching together a Frankenstein's monster of speech recognition and transcription software to type what i say in real-time?

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Does Marcellus Wallace have the appearance of a female canine? Then for what reason did you attempt to copulate with him as if he were a female canine?

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Originally Posted by canuckguy Pretty simple really, do your own thing as long as it does not fuck with anyone's enjoyment of life.

BadNick

I'm a mechanical engineer so I like finding reliable hardware solutions rather than always looking to software.

Based on my extensive experience, including analysis of Brides of Frankenstein



my favorite highly adaptable "speeech recognition and transcription" hardware would be a talented female secretary.

Jinn

Dragon Naturally Speaking is *incredibly* accurate once it is trained. It takes a long time to train it to your voice, tone, speed, etc., but after that I might as well be talking to an actual secretary.

My problem was that I actually type considerably faster than I speak, so it was over all slower for me.

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EventHorizon

the only trouble is that Dragon NS doesnt run on linux... not even with wine

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Does Marcellus Wallace have the appearance of a female canine? Then for what reason did you attempt to copulate with him as if he were a female canine?

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Originally Posted by canuckguy Pretty simple really, do your own thing as long as it does not fuck with anyone's enjoyment of life.

Zeraph

I tried the Dragon one a bit back. Never got it to work for me to make it worthwhile. But then I can type around 100wpm.

bagatelle

I've spillt wine and coffee on my computer. Didn't improve the performance.

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ASU2003

I attempted this 10+ years ago in 1999 with my 450 Mhz computer running Win 98. It did work, but was really slow and wasn't smart enough to fix basic mistakes.

I think Apple should work with IBM to develop Watson into a AI interface/secretary/researcher... Put about 20GB of information on the local computer, and allow it to access the 15+ TB of information on-line if needed. But, this should be able to learn how humans talk, the meaning and punctuation of sentences, translations from one language to another, and other human-computer interface issues.

snuggy

Try any of these applications

gnome voice control
voxforge.org
freespeech.sourceforge.net"/"freespeech.html

bobby

I got Dragon 10 (real cheap) and it works just fine....really helped my hunt and peck typing...........just got Dragon 11 for my 8 y/o granddaughter...will report on how it works...........xoxoxoo

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cruisinmags

imagine how things will be 10 years from now?!