On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:54:36 -0500 (EST), Don wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi, > > I have a friend who would like to get away from Microsoft system > dependence. The show stopper seems to be voice recognition. She is > partially disabled and needs Naturally Speaking or equivalent. She > uses it for live dictation as well as recording to a digital recorder > followed by transcription. > > Are there any open source equivalents to NS? > > If not, does anyone know of a successful use of NS under wine? > > If not, might xen or some other virtualizer be the answer? Could she > move files from one virtual machine to another? > > Thanks for any insight and advice. ..try play with these searches in your CLI: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-Reformer $ apt-cache search recogni |wc -l 123 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-Reformer $ apt-cache search voice |wc -l 107 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-Reformer $ apt-cache search voice |apt-cache search recogni |wc -l 123 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-Reformer $ apt-cache search "voice \ recogni" |wc -l 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-Reformer $ apt-cache search speech |wc -l 90 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-Reformer $ apt-cache search "speech \ recogni" |wc -l 4 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/Independent-Reformer $ apt-cache --full search \ "speech recogni" |less ..I was planning to do a doorbell server off one of these 4, but wound upsurfing the web instead. ;o) -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
