Re: disability access via speech recognition
On 2/2/2011 10:12 PM, Jerry James wrote:
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Eric S.
Johansson<esj(a)harvee.org> wrote:
> cool
>
> what do your brain cycle say about http://emacs-vr-mode.sourceforge.net/
It took me a few minutes to work out that DNS == Dragon Naturally
Speaking. My brain insists that that acronym stands for Domain Name
System. :-)
yea, a common confusion :-) I use DNS to drive DNS.
I can't actually try this out, since I'm on a Linux machine.
Are the
sources for vr.exe available somewhere?
yes
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emacs-vr-mode/
I'll look through it. Give me a day or two to digest how the
code works.
When I messed around with this eons ago, I took the approach of making
voice be a distinct input stream, just as keyboard and mouse input are
distinct. That way I could hang functionality on the voice stream
that I wouldn't want on the keyboard stream, such as making
corrections when the VR engine didn't understand me. I was working
with ViaVoice at the time, back when it used to be owned by IBM, and
they used to support Linux. My stuff leveraged some earlier work by
Larry Sanders.
That's where I'm thinking about going. Unfortunately, Dragon has moved down the
road of injecting to the same queue is the keyboard. with the natlink
interface, we should be able to do direct injection.
Over the past couple of years, I've slowly been submitting bits
of the
CMU Sphinx stack to Fedora, with an eye towards doing the voice
recognition work over again with Sphinx as the engine. However, I
don't have the full stack in Fedora yet.
I wouldn't waste any time with
Sphinx. The vocabularies are too small for
real-world desktop use. Command-and-control is a nice add-on, Gen. dictation is
critical. The way I look at it, if you can't write a piece of e-mail, or
document piece of code, the recognition system has failed. I would look at the
Simon project instead. http://simon-listens.blogspot.com/
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