[linux-audio-user] speech to text software?

[Robert Jonsson]

söndagen den 15 juni 2003 13.59 skrev iriXx:
> Samuel S Chessman wroted:
> > Actually festival is text to speech.
> >
> > Opensource sphinx from CMU is in debian, use perlbox
> > http://www.perlbox.org/ for desktop integration.
>
> thank you, this is brilliant. i'd noticed Sphinx but couldnt work out how i
> was supposed to use it for desktop apps!
>
> i'm glad to see perlbox. there seems to be a plethora of text to speech
> apps for the visually impaired - but a dearth of speech to text. perhaps
> its more difficult to build?

Yes, it is magnitudes harder to do. I used to be involved in that industry, 
and the applications that do it are very few, the ones that do it well can 
easily be counted on one hand. The big apps are Windows only, IBM has an 
application called viaVoice that is a speech recognition package that 
actually is available on Linux though.
Or should I say, WAS available, I've heard they have discontinued it. 

As for open implementations I can't give any direct pointers, there may be 
some info at any of the universities that do speech research, though I'm 
sorry to say, I haven't found much.

e.g.
http://www.speech.kth.se/
http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/

/Robert