Speech Recogniton

[Geiser, Ian]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Timothy A. Seufert wrote:

>
> At 4:57 AM -0400 9/14/00, Michael Norton wrote:
> >hi,
> >
> >Do any libraries exist that allow me to use the Apple Speech recognition
> >hardware under LinuxPPC?
>
> Sorry, there is no hardware (aside from a simple digitizer to capture
> the sound of course).  Apple's speech recognition is 100% software.
>
> The original implementation on 68K Macs used an AT&T DSP coprocessor
> to do the crunching because the 68K didn't have enough oomph to do it
> by itself, but the PowerPC implementation relies on nothing but the
> CPU.
>
	on the off chance that you can get sound input
	to work under LinuxPPC (i have a pimiso pb so it cant AFAIK)
	try checking on freshmeat.  There are a few programs
	that can do voice control.  One of them is called voicecontrol
	i think.

	I have only played with festival which can to Text to speech.

	-ian reinhart geiser

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