[LBo] set to start on Thursday October 19th

[Gene Venable]

Hello, Edward.

There is nothing open source that I know of remotely approaching Dragon Naturally Speaking. I heard of a new one just yesterday, costing more than $10,000, or commercial enterprises. The reviewer said its accuracy was about 80%, a joke compared to Dragon, whose supporters claim 99% for the latest and greatest version. I would like to get Dragon running under Linux using Wine -- I haven't tried yet, because I have a feeling it wouldn't work. 

One of the things that stopped me switching to Linux for a long time was its uselessness with regard to speech recognition and text-to-speech software. I have great Windows versions of both, and haven't found anything really acceptible in Linux. Finally, I gave up speech recognition and text-to-speech on this computer and adopted Linux instead, not a choice that one wants to make.

I never heard of Kanottix. I'll look for it!

ed bujosa <ebujosa at houston.rr.com> wrote: Thank you, Anita! 
To the newer folks: My name is Edward and I've been lurking mostly since 
early this year.  I've used Kanottix for about a year and I LOVE IT!  
Very stable, no problems.  The folks who run the show here at Linux 
Basics are generous and authoratitive (meaning they know their stuff).  
The few times I've come out from my lurking to ask for advice I've been 
overjoyed about the plentiful, useful, accurate information I get.  I 
think you new folks are going to love the culture here at Linux Basics 
community.  I'll be studying to learn command line mainly, although 
there is virtually no lesson I won't benefit from (I'm pretty new to 
Linux)  I'm really enjoying reading how experienced some of my 
classmates are.  I'm exhilerated about taking this course!

          I'm a Spanish/English Legal Interpreter (trials, depositions, 
etc...) and I run my business on Kanottix.  I run exclusively Kanottix 
unless I have to go to my MS Win 2000 partition to use Dragon Naturally 
Speaking (but I NEVER connect to the internet on a MS OS, shamefully my 
wife does on the laptop).  There are some open source CAT programs 
(Computer Assisted Translation) that I haven't gotten the chance to play 
with yet, but that seem to show some real promise. 

Two things I'd like to put to the group:
1. Has anyone else tried Kanottix?  (I seem to remember Stefan saying 
that he runs it on a machine). 

2. Has anyone heard of any open source Speech Recognition programs 
comparable to Dragon Naturally Speaking's performance (I'm relatively 
satisfied w/ Dragon but my mind is open).

Cheers all,

Edward

Anita Lewis wrote:

> On 10/09/2006 07:00 AM ed bujosa wrote:
>
>> Is there something we need to do to 'officially' to participate in 
>> the course?  Is there something we need to have already read or done 
>> by then or any advice you offer?
>
>
> Nothing to be done until the reading assignment comes out.  As far as 
> I know, that will come out on the list as well as being posted on the 
> site.
>
> Anita


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