Samuel S Chessman wroted: 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? thanks again m~ -- |\ _,,,---,,_ ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ HTTP 503: Too Busy |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL .::. www.iriXx.org .::. www.copyleftmedia.org.uk .::. gnupg key ID: AEB7A31E

söndagen den 15 juni 2003 13.59 skrev iriXx: 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

iriXx wrote: It's one of my pet interests but the problem is you have to be a *very* clever person to make this stuff work. If you think ardour has taken a long time to build combine that level of mind work with very advanced and tricky algorithmic math better reserved for people with long beards, bald heads, tie dyed shirts and bare feet. I have a book on the topic: Speech and audio signal processing by Gold Morgan It gives a very thorough overview of the problems faced and the potential payoff of making software that works well. I've often wondered why there isn't more discussion about this in the LAD community and figure it comes down to very few people have the skills/knowledge base to do the coding. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== Being on stage with the band in front of crowds shouting, "Get off! No! We want normal music!", I think that was more like acting than anything I've ever done. Goldie, 8 Nov, 2002 The Scotsman