Re: voice recognition..?

[stuart@xxxxxxx]

On Sat, 4 Dec 1999 awilliam@whitemice.org wrote:

> 
> > 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.
> 
Yes, I think that may be the solution here.  It says it works with
WordPerfect which would be perfect so that a non-blind person would be
able to use the machine efficiently also.  Thanks!