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