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GNU/Linux: Current State of Voice Dictation and Recognition
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| With the discouraging part behind us I
| want to look at what is being done and
| recent developments as of February 2010.
| Just recently the simon project announced
| an upcoming 1Â year benefit project on its
| web log. The announcement includes the
| following:
|
| Abstract:
| With the help of verbal control provided
| by simon using terms of everyday language,
| useful scenarios and areas of application
| shall be created to enable an easy use of
| new communication technologies such as the
| internet, telephone and multimedia
| applications for elderly people. Moreover,
| additional security can be provided, for
| example, a reminder for the user to take a
| medication.
|
| While this announcement does not
| specifically state work on solving the
| dictation problem there is at least proof
| that the assistive software simon is
| moving forward with its user voice
| interface. We can only hope that the
| research done will turn simon into a
| useful, dictation capable, voice interface
| for GNU/Linux. Unfortunately, simon uses
| the HTK-Toolkit which is not GPL and has
| its own rather restrictive license that
| includes this clause:
|
| 2.2 The Licensed Software either in whole
| or in part can not be distributed or sub-
| licensed to any third party in any form.
|
| This restrictive license means the HTK-
| toolkit cannot be distributed with a
| GNU/Linux distribution. Which also means
| it is unlikely that simon will be included
| in many distributions as it relies on this
| toolkit for the heavy lifting of back-end
| speech processing.
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http://blog.eracc.com/2010/02/28/gnulinux-current-state-of-voice-dictation-and-recognition/
Related:
Phillips Dictionation SDK for Linux
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| Phillips has released a Linux SDK system for it's popular dictation
| software. Although the platform it not Open Source, it's exciting to
| see vendors supporting Linux.
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http://www.linuxmednews.com/1165784499
All Grundig Business Systems dictation devices speak Linux
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| The central application also improves data protection: essential, personal
| information is only stored in protected data centres. Communication between
| clients and the server is encrypted.
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http://www.healthtechwire.com/Pressrelease.146+M575f4c1b0c5.0.html
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