[Access-activists] Re: [VINUX] Linux Voice Recognition and a New Ubuntu Speaking Reader

[Christian Hofstader]

Hi,

As most of you know, I am running around the NFB convention being a 
general gnuisance and insisting on waving  the free software flag as 
much as possible. I'll have a general report sometime next week 
describing what we could accomplish on a shoestring budget with a small 
number of people.

Apropos to the titular matter of this email, though, the GNU 
Accessibility Initiative (GAI), is kicking off a major freee speech 
recognition project starting later this month after I get home and can 
get my mind back into a mode less surreal than what one needs to use 
when at a consumer convention.

There are about a half dozen different speech recognition programs in 
various states of development around the GNU/Linux world. Our first task 
is to evaluate these and determine which one we would want to build upon 
to take the program from a generic dictation program to a component that 
can be used in all sorts of software, including AT.

We have a speech recognition oriented, albeit dormant, mailing list set 
up for people who want to get hard core into this effort. I will suggest 
that, for now, people with a ore casual interest in the subject (you 
think it is necessary, you havve suggestions, you would like to review 
the procedings of the speech recognition team, etc.) please join our 
unmoderated   accessibility mailing list (send an email to 
address@hidden with "subscribe" (sans quotes) in the 
subject line). If this gets too high volume, we can spin off a general 
speech reco discussion list at a later date.

So, please join the accessibility list or write to me privately about 
the hardcore speech-reco list and I can add you if you really want to 
work really hard on this specific problem.

HH,
cdh