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Cc: Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind
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Polytropon writes:

>  Speech recognition requires training. Both the user and the
>  system have to learn from each other. But you have a learning
>  curve everywhere, be it typing, talking, or reading from a
>  Braille output.

	In the case of speech recognition, that's a curve many might be
willing to travel if they had reason to believe it was effort wisely
invested.
	There are a couple of ports that cleim to do speech
recognition.  Does anyone have experience with them?


				Robert Huff