[wellylug] accessible linux/opensource

Kingsley G. Morse Jr. change at nas.com
Mon Jul 2 14:13:51 NZST 2007


I seem to recall having heard good things about a
product named "Dragon Naturally Speaking".

They claim it's faster and more accurate than
typing, although I can't vouch for it personally.

See

    http://www.nuance.com/naturallyspeaking

Thanks,
Kingsley

On 07/02/07 12:20, Rob Collins wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My mother's partner has recently lost most of his sight and he asked me 
> if there any free open source alternatives to the very expensive IBM 
> voice to text and text to spoken JAWS.  Already discovered the German 
> "MARY" for dictation and the Sun Microsystems "Sphinx 4" for voice 
> recognition.  Haven't tried out MARY yet as it is a 500MB download and 
> although Sphinx 4 says it is voice recognition, I don't know what it 
> does with the voice once it has been recognised (does it spit out 
> english text file output like I am trying to achieve??)
> 
> Anyone have any better suggestions or can help me with those mentioned 
> above?  He runs windows so something that will run on that is ideal but 
> I could convince him of a Linux dual boot if that was the only way 
> around it.
> 
> Also - does anyone know of any sight impairment accessibility add-ons 
> for Linux (eg high contrast / large text etc)?  The Linux distro I'm 
> most familiar with is Kubuntu.
> 
> Ta,
> 
> Rob Collins

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