From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 2 21:06:03 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BEF216A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:06:03 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail-core.space2u.com (mail-core.space2u.com [62.20.1.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70BD543D31 for ; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 21:06:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jd@dagerot.com) Received: from localhost (www-core.space2u.com [62.20.1.180]) by mail-core.space2u.com (8.13.3/8.13.2) with ESMTP id j12L5w9Z027219; Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:05:58 +0100 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:05:58 +0100 Message-Id: <200502022105.j12L5w9Z027219@mail-core.space2u.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Joachim Dagerot" To: Henry Miller Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting a microphone to work X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:06:03 -0000 >>I have an old Dell Cpt 550 laptop where I run freeSBIE. >> >>Although I'm rather experienced with freeBSD I have never really have >>worked with the client-side part of it, so I don't know much of X or >any >>other client side software (kde, gnome or whatever they are called is >the >>same) >> >>I'm king of ssh so to say! >> >>Now, I want to have the integrated microphone up and running. I also >want >>to 'teach' the computer a few phrases (3-4 or so) and have it interact >>with a software when it hears the phrase. >> >>Where do I start? Please point me to drivers, test software, guides or >>where to download that wonderful "VoiceControlYouImageViewer.gz" that >you >>have laying around. >> >>Any tip is welcome, imagine I know nothing about this! > >Good luck. Speech to text is very difficult, AFAIK nothing works well >in the open source world. IBM's Via Voice runs on linux, if you can >find it... > >You can try /usr/ports/audio/sphinx but it is an early release system. > See the description of that for more info. > >I suspect this is a case of if you can get it working tell everyone >else how, rather than it works great already. I could be wrong >though. > Actually, it's not a complete speak-2-text solution I'm aiming for, just being able to shout "NEXT" and it will perform some action. There will be 3 or four of those commands. Not more. I don't even know what a microphone device would be named and how to access it.