[ale] OT: anyone using ViaVoice?

[Tom & JaVonn]

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  I scoured IBM.com and finally found a notice that they had withdrawn the Linux SDK !!!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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> > 
> > 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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