[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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