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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: voice control software like Dragon Naturally Spekaing
From:       Niels Jende <njende () njende ! de>
Date:       2007-09-20 12:24:44
Message-ID: 46F2668C.5070809 () njende ! de
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Florian Hackenberger wrote:
> On Thursday 20 September 2007, Niels Jende wrote:
> 
> > Mr Knopper got back to me and pointed me to that piece of Software:
> > http://www.epromoter.at/epromoter/index.php?id=42
> > He hasn't implemented it into Adriane, as this Software is GUI-based.
> > 
> > From reading the website, it does not seem like they have been able to create 
> a functional version yetd if they have at least the source code does not yet 
> seem to be available.

on the LinuxDay in Vienna they have presented SIMON @ work.
Here is - unfortunately in german - Mr.Knopper's statement:

ABER! Zufällig habe ich auf den LinuxWochen in Wien die Entwickler der
Spracheingabe "Simon" getroffen, und was mir dort vorgeführt wurde,
scheint schon sehr gut brauchbar zu sein. Ein Programm zum Trainieren
mit der eigenen Stimme (leider ausschließlich graphisch, für ADRIANE
daher noch nicht brauchbar) ist auch mit dabei.

So, to me it seems, that they have made some kind of progress, which isn't really \
shown/presented on their website.



> I did some research into open source speech recognition 
> and came to the conclusion that while Julius is currently the best project 
> for speech recognition, the problem is the lack of freely available speech 
> corpa.

Indeed that there no free speech corpa's is - no doubt - more than just 
bad. And yes, I agree that Julius seems to be actually the best SR System.

> VoxForge [1] tries to solve that problem for the english language. 
> Without a free speech corpus, a free language model and a grammar file for 
> each supported language it is impossible to create a working truly open 
> source speech recognition system.
> 
> 

True. And because of that, I hope that Simon will come up with a free 
language model, free speech corpus and free grammar files. I hope to get 
either a Testversion or at least some deeper informations from the 
core-team of Simon.

Regards
Niels

P.S.: Once I have a Testversion is there anyone else intersted in 
testing Simon? I have been asking for the sources or debian packages...

 
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