[ale] Voice Recognition software

[H P Ladds]

On 12/2/06, John Mills <johnmills at speakeasy.net> wrote:
>
> ALErs -
>
> I checked the web site and found mainly MsWin, and one MAC-OS version. Did
> I miss a Linux connection?


I found it listed under how to install a Unix system
http://misterhouse.sourceforge.net/
The links certainly appear to be for Linux.

> The IBM ViaVoice TTS and Voice Recognition engines is no longer available
> (as of 05/2002) from the IBM site (
> http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/dev/sdk_linux.html ), but can still
> be found here: http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~laird/Linux/ViaVoice/<http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/%7Elaird/Linux/ViaVoice/>The TTS engines can also be found here:
> ftp://people.redhat.com/jlamb/
>
> To use it with mh, you need to install Brad Reed's ViaVoiceTTS.pm module
> from http://www.reednet.org/ViaVoiceTTS , then set your mh.inivoice_text=vv_tts or voice_text=viavoice (vv_tts is a bit fancier, queing up
> speech and has more mh.ini options).
>
> Download and install (as root) these rpms:
>
>   tar -xvf viavoice_asr_sdk_3.tar  ( 3 MB)
>   tar -xvf viavoice_dict_rtk_3.tar (78 MB)
>   rpm -ivh ViaVoice_runtime-3.0-1.2.i386.rpm
>   rpm -ivh ViaVoice_sdk-3.0-1.1.i386.rpm
>
> Note for our usage, you can get by without the gui menus, so if rpm tells
> you that you have down level or missing libraries (e.g. libgdk), you can
> probably ignore that by adding the rpm --nodeps option.
>
> As the *.txt instructions from the tar file state, you should probably run
> the viavoice code as non-root. Here is one way to allow non-root access to
> the microphone:
>
>   chmod go+rw /dev/dsp*
>   chmod go+rw /dev/audio*
>
>
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