talking to my computer
 

so i was bored once upon a time and i got a cool little HP netbook and put Ubuntu on it. since i write my squadron's weekly newsletter, i thought it'd be easier to just speak to my computer through my bluetooth and have it type what i dictated.

so i google'd it. (since when has "google" become a verb anyways?) the most sophisticated thing i could find was a program called Julius. however, when i click it or run it or anything, it does nothing except make my roommates think i'm out of my mind for talking to my computer.

i realize its a little sad that i need to talk to my computer but can someone help me fix this?

That technology really is in its infancy, still. I had an app on my iPad that was pretty decent, but even with that I still had to go back and do a great deal of editing and I have a pretty clear speaking voice and non-regional diction. I'll keep an eye open for anything new, but for now you may be relegated to typing. Sorry I couldn't be more helpful.

frankenstien's monster is to humans as this speech recognition software is to Dragon NS. i've heard that if i run Dragon NS on Ubuntu using Wine that it causes mild catastrophes.

would there be any way to do the programming equivalent of stitching together a Frankenstein's monster of speech recognition and transcription software to type what i say in real-time?

I'm a mechanical engineer so I like finding reliable hardware solutions rather than always looking to software.

Based on my extensive experience, including analysis of Brides of Frankenstein

http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...ankenstein.jpg

my favorite highly adaptable "speeech recognition and transcription" hardware would be a talented female secretary.

Dragon Naturally Speaking is *incredibly* accurate once it is trained. It takes a long time to train it to your voice, tone, speed, etc., but after that I might as well be talking to an actual secretary.

My problem was that I actually type considerably faster than I speak, so it was over all slower for me.

the only trouble is that Dragon NS doesnt run on linux... not even with wine

I tried the Dragon one a bit back. Never got it to work for me to make it worthwhile. But then I can type around 100wpm.

I've spillt wine and coffee on my computer. Didn't improve the performance.

I attempted this 10+ years ago in 1999 with my 450 Mhz computer running Win 98. It did work, but was really slow and wasn't smart enough to fix basic mistakes.

I think Apple should work with IBM to develop Watson into a AI interface/secretary/researcher... Put about 20GB of information on the local computer, and allow it to access the 15+ TB of information on-line if needed. But, this should be able to learn how humans talk, the meaning and punctuation of sentences, translations from one language to another, and other human-computer interface issues.

Try any of these applications

gnome voice control
voxforge.org
freespeech.sourceforge.net"/"freespeech.html

I got Dragon 10 (real cheap) and it works just fine....really helped my hunt and peck typing...........just got Dragon 11 for my 8 y/o granddaughter...will report on how it works...........xoxoxoo

imagine how things will be 10 years from now?!