Deri,

Thanks for the info.  Especially about the free system.  Now I've just
got to find some time to get it organised!!

Rayna


On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 10:22:48PM +0000, Deri James wrote:
    On Sunday 11 February 2001  6:54 am, Rayna Lamb wrote:
    > Thanks everyone for your welcomes, and words of encouragement.  My
    > computer hasn't blown up on me yet, and I've been on the net nine
    > whole days!!  I'll cure myself of my techo-phobia yet!!
    > BTW I'm thinking about getting a voice recognition system to save
    > stress on my hands and arms etc.  How efficient are they?  I talk and
    > think rather rapidly, and want something that can keep up with me.  I use
    > Linux/GNU as an operating system.
    >
    > Thanks
    > Rayna

    Hi Rayna,

    Glad you're using Linux. :-)

    IBMs ViaVoice is a commercial product available for Linux.

    If you want to look for something free, :-), Carnegie Mellon University has a
    project called Sphinx. See:-

    http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/Sphinx.html

    I haven't used either of these products, and peoples mileage with Voice
    Recognition on the list has varied.

    You will need a microphone and a sound digitiser card (with a Linux driver)
    attached to you computer.

    Cheers

    Deri