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gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2639 Location: Earth

In desktop technology, there are 2 desktop speech methods used. Desktop navigation and Office information insertion (i.e. Wordprocessing, and other pakages)

Can we do this in Puppy? How?

Thanks in advance.

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

Are you wanting something to allow partially sighted people to use puppy?

There was speakpup

speakpup thread
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=24571

speakpup blog
http://speakpup.blogspot.co.uk/

maybe Emacspeak is what your looking for?
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/

disciple · Posted: Sun 03 Jun 2012, 10:27 Post subject:

I think he's asking about speach recognition, whereas I think speakpup was about the opposite (text to speech).

I believe there are a few options for text to speech, especially whatever you call things like jwmspeech.
But for speech recognition there aren't so many options. There is CMU Sphinx, but there don't seem to be a lot of end user applications are based on it (check out pocketsphinx though). Then there is Simon, which is KDE based. And there's another engine called Julius, but I can't see any end-user applications based on it (although I haven't looked very hard).

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1759

AFAIK, Simon uses Julius. I have done some work on TTS and STT. Festival is the top-of-line for text-to-speech, but there are several lighter alternatives which are nearly as good or just as good. Yes, speech-to-text is much more complicated. Julius seems to do a better job than sphynx, though. I use Julius for STT and either flite or svox-pico for TTS.

gcmartin · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 2639 Location: Earth