[Access-activists] Re: [Accessibility] Call to Arms

[Christian Hofstader]

eric: I would love to except much of the process requires computer 
programs that I can't use with currently available speech recognition.   
seriously Richard, you do have a chicken or egg problem. The free 
software foundation philosophy precludes enhancing nonfree software. I 
get that and I can make my peace with it. The cost is that you lose 
volunteers from the disabled community. If they can't enhance or expand 
on NaturallySpeaking capabilities, then they can't participate until you 
produce a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system. Bit of 
an organizational pickle. But then again, the other solution is too.


cdh: I don't know if this is possible but, if we can build a limited 
vocabulary speech recognition engine designed to work explicitly for 
programmers that we can put out as emacs macros, would a person 
incapable of using a keyboard be able to help with the hacking? As it is 
emacs, we can do a whole lot of command and control statements  as well 
as meta commands that can do a bunch of things with few words that would 
be useful to a hacker sans keyboard, if it can be done, it can be done 
in emacs and emacspeak and, therefore, this could be a very cool place 
to start that is probably a shorter route to getting hackers with this 
set of disabilities up and going to help build the next generation.

cdh: ALso, an area about which I am nearly totally ignorant is on screen 
keyboards. I'm told that GNOME 3 has a much better replacement for GOC 
coming that may also be useful for people who cannot use a standard 
keyboard.

cdh


cdh: Meanwhile,


On 07/27/2010 01:55 PM, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
>  On 7/27/2010 12:57 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> >      Need a first step for this whole process should be collecting a 
> > corpus for
> >      training and experimenting with different recognition parameters.
> >
> > This is something our community should be able to help with.
> > It needs someone to take the lead.
> >
> > ISTR reading about a project of that general nature.  I hope Chris
> > remembers the details.  I think it needed some practical support work.
> > Would you or someone else like to help?
> I would love to except much of the process requires computer programs 
> that I can't use with currently available speech recognition.   
> seriously Richard, you do have a chicken or egg problem. The free 
> software foundation philosophy precludes enhancing nonfree software. I 
> get that and I can make my peace with it. The cost is that you lose 
> volunteers from the disabled community. If they can't enhance or 
> expand on NaturallySpeaking capabilities, then they can't participate 
> until you produce a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition 
> system. Bit of an organizational pickle. But then again, the other 
> solution is too.
>
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Happy Hacking,
cdh

Christian Hofstader
Director of Access Technology
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