[sf-lug] Anyone know of robust voice-actuated software?

[jim]

Thank you, Michael; I've been passing all replies 
to the questioner. If she can handle this one, I'm 
gonna suggest she joins this SF-LUG mailing list. 




On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 06:44 -0700, Michael Paoli wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 17:45:59 -0700
> > From: Ken Shaffer <kenshaffer80 at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [sf-lug] Anyone know of robust voice-actuated software?
> >
> > Carniegi Mellon also had something called sphinx for voice recognition.
> 
> Bingo!  ;-)
> 
> >> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:10 PM, jim <jim at systemateka.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>     Someone on the Noisebridge list is asking for
> >>> voice actuated software that lets the user issue
> >>> commands to the operating system and input into
> >>> various data files AND works reliably.
> >>>     I'm hoping there's an open source project
> >>> that addresses this need.
> >>>     Do you know of any?
> 
> Or, when in doubt, ask.  And on a Debian system, with aptitude installed,
> or similarly on many Debian derivative distributions - perhaps even
> some that are "merely" .deb package based, we have something like:
> 
> $ aptitude search '?description(~(speech~|voice~).*recogni)'
> p   gcompris                        - Educational games for small children
> p   libgsm-tools                    - User binaries for a GSM speech  
> compressor
> i A libgsm1                         - Shared libraries for GSM speech  
> compressor
> p   libgsm1-dbg                     - Shared libraries for GSM speech  
> compressor
> p   libgsm1-dev                     - Development libraries for a GSM  
> speech com
> p   libsphinx2-dev                  - speech recognition library -  
> development k
> p   libsphinx2g0                    - speech recognition library
> p   libtorch3-dev                   - State of the art machine  
> learning library
> p   libtorch3c2                     - State of the art machine  
> learning library
> p   sphinx2-bin                     - speech recognition utilities
> p   sphinx2-hmm-6k                  - speech recognition library -  
> default acous
> p   w3-recs                         - Recommendations of the World  
> Wide Web Cons
> $ aptitude show sphinx2-bin
> Package: sphinx2-bin
> State: not installed
> Version: 0.6-2.1
> Priority: optional
> Section: sound
> Maintainer: Isaac Clerencia <isaac at debian.org>
> Uncompressed Size: 528 k
> Depends: sphinx2-hmm-6k, libc6 (>= 2.7-1), libsphinx2g0 (>= 0.6)
> Description: speech recognition utilities
>   Sphinx 2 is a real-time, speaker-independent speech recognition system.
> 
>   This package contains examples and utilities that use Sphinx. It  
> also includes
>   a sample language model that is capable of recognizing simple  
> commands like "go
>   forward ten meters" and other commands one might use to tell a robot where to
>   move.
> 
> Tags: accessibility::speech-recognition, interface::commandline,  
> role::program,
>        scope::utility, works-with::audio
> 
> $ echo $(lsb_release -d; uname -m)
> Description: Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.7 (squeeze) x86_64
> $ aptitude --simulate install sphinx2-bin
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>    libsphinx2g0{a} sphinx2-bin sphinx2-hmm-6k{a}
> 0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 6404 kB of archives. After unpacking 24.2 MB will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] n
> Abort.
> 
> For Debian, one can also search here:
> http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages#search_packages
> 
> 
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