[ale] OT: anyone using ViaVoice?

[James P. Kinney III]

OK. It has been converted to a java based mess. Some links for
info/downloads:

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/speech
http://java.sun.com/products/java-media/speech/

The IBM java-speech kit is no charge to download and use. Commercial
production/redistribution may be different.

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 12:36, Tom & JaVonn wrote:
> James:
> 
> I installed ViaVoice for a referral back in July.  I scoured IBM.com and finally found a notice that they had withdrawn the Linux SDK !!!  But I needed this to use Xvoice, which promised to let lots of X apps take input from ViaVoice.
> 
> BUT I found a stash of ViaVoice files at http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~laird/Linux/ including older versions and TTS (text-to-speech).
> 
> Sadly, I was never able to get a clean compile of Xvoice, and it seems to be unmaintained and falling behind the times.
> 
> However, for just over $40 ppd, the VV product is pretty nice.  You get a CD and a mic.  After some voice training, it worked fairly well and with patience I presume it could achieve reasonable accuracy.
> 
> Tom
> 
> On 26 Aug 2002 08:45:14 -0400
> "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
> > There was a ViaVoice SDK a while back. It should allow the VV engine to
> > be called and pipe-fed (or some other intelligent means) a sound stream
> > for translation. Dig around on IBM.com
> > 
> > On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 08:23, Christopher R. Curzio wrote:
> > > I actually looked into ViaVoice Linux for a home automation project I'm
> > > working on. Unfortunately, it seems that it doesn't integrate with any
> > > other applications, so you have to Copy & Paste into your application of
> > > choice. Depending on your needs, that may be okay with you. 
> > > 
> > > Personally, I'm looking for something that can talk directly to the
> > > console. 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Christopher R. Curzio     |  Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax
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> > > 
> > > 
> > > Thus Spake John Wells <jb at sourceillustrated.com>:
> > > 25 Aug 2002 22:34:14 -0400
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > What's your experience?  Looking for speech recognition software to
> > > > expedite school note entry...
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks!
> > > > 
> > > > John
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