[ale] OT: anyone using ViaVoice?

[Dow Hurst]

I don't really care whether I have to buy something or not. Â I would just
*love* to try out speech recognition and synthesis under Linux. Â Saw it demonstrated
under Windows with the Dragon Naturally Speaking years ago and thought it
was pretty spiffy. Â I'd like a real nice package that listens to me and speaks
back too. ;-) 
Dow


Tom & JaVonn wrote:
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 cite="mid20020826231751.36301b7f.pairoftwins at mindspring.com">
  James:

Good digging.  Says the Linux version support recognition, but not synthesis.  Also that you need ViaVoice.

" In much the same way that Java implementations are built on top of the native operating system GUI capabilities, Speech for Java is built on top of the native speech recognition and synthesis capabilities in IBM ViaVoice. Therefore, Speech for Java requires IBM ViaVoice. "

So, if developers integrated this, then their apps could offer speech recognition, right?  But only if the user had a copy of ViaVoice...

Tom

On 26 Aug 2002 13:07:41 -0400
"James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:

  
  
    OK. It has been converted to a java based mess. Some links for
info/downloads:

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/speech
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/speech/

The IBM java-speech kit is no charge to download and use. Commercial
production/redistribution may be different.

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 12:36, Tom & JaVonn wrote:
    
    
      James:

I installed ViaVoice for a referral back in July.  I scoured IBM.com and finally found a notice that they had withdrawn the Linux SDK !!!  But I needed this to use Xvoice, which promised to let lots of X apps take input from ViaVoice.

BUT I found a stash of ViaVoice files at http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~laird/Linux/ including older versions and TTS (text-to-speech).

Sadly, I was never able to get a clean compile of Xvoice, and it seems to be unmaintained and falling behind the times.

However, for just over $40 ppd, the VV product is pretty nice.  You get a CD and a mic.  After some voice training, it worked fairly well and with patience I presume it could achieve reasonable accuracy.

Tom

On 26 Aug 2002 08:45:14 -0400
"James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:

      
      
        There was a ViaVoice SDK a while back. It should allow the VV engine to
be called and pipe-fed (or some other intelligent means) a sound stream
for translation. Dig around on IBM.com

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 08:23, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
        
        
          I actually looked into ViaVoice Linux for a home automation project I'm
working on. Unfortunately, it seems that it doesn't integrate with any
other applications, so you have to Copy & Paste into your application of
choice. Depending on your needs, that may be okay with you. 

Personally, I'm looking for something that can talk directly to the
console. 

-- 
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http://www.accipiter.org  |  si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?
:wq!


Thus Spake John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com>:
25 Aug 2002 22:34:14 -0400


          
          
            What's your experience?  Looking for speech recognition software to
expedite school note entry...


Thanks!

John







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