Re: voice recognition..?

[awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

> hello-
>       I have a little project that I need to tackle in the near 
future.
> We are doing some volunteer computer work for the Mel Trotter Mission
> (charity in GR), and have taken on the task of working out a way for a
> blind person to use a computer to dictate notes into.  I think I 
remember
> seeing something about someone using Emacs with some other software to 
at
> least read what is on the screen.  This seems like a good start I 
suppose,
> but is there voice recognition software available for Linux?  I kind 
of
> doubt it, but having such software free compared to $100+ for Windows
> would be nice, especially since this is for a charity which has little
> extra money.  If anyone has any ideas it would be really nice to hear
> about them before we start investigating the MS side of 
things...thanks,

Have you looked at Xvoice?  It is based on IBM's ViaVoice Api (which 
is free on Linux).  Head over to freshmeat and check it out.