From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 22 10:25:42 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C990106564A for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:25:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from aryeh.friedman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-gx0-f172.google.com (mail-gx0-f172.google.com [209.85.161.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EF418FC14 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:25:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk19 with SMTP id 19so611559gxk.17 for ; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 03:25:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=jRobPg5nJYgSY+xEKPFxXC7eKRyqYTUK6VeFX1dS+ms=; b=sF2+FUFiOTl3plepZnMlObcyHl+V/9Z5YdqD4B65B7jXvD1W55ePmXSaa3yLxhZFTf CnZpgCLfNnhjX1NrMGvbWUwevxdtmJVy0VfOW8/EzKMVbM7NnRM2TU4efONRm+/lC5GY j/7EtFER4sZoR4Z9TZK5eJ/BtLb/wgMCsSB/A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; b=J2+mWCqfJbIB9arjLWH5BeTYlCHonuVis5fkzirzI0wYxppQS2VbdSAvgtEFdWmt5f H9/CfTrl1qxYMO4GKwOVBW5Jr7j0GUUw9iXzAtWRzGv6+khd7ucm+76zirVYPN0pgVJt uiAILMM/a26JcdtxGUbMT9fxBeahIQ6Bu0QFs= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.236.77.229 with SMTP id d65mr744939yhe.306.1308736584316; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.236.110.143 with HTTP; Wed, 22 Jun 2011 02:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 05:56:24 -0400 Message-ID: From: Aryeh Friedman To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: speech reconition X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 10:25:42 -0000 After seeing one to many ads for Dragon I have decided to see what can done on my main (and only) machine which runs FB exclusively.... please note I have a speech impairment but when I tried a very early version of Dragon in I think 1989 or 1990 it got 90% of what I said with no training (and my speech has improved since then and I am sure it has also)... I will be using this mostly for command line input (tcsh) but the main purpose of that is to be a java developer who hates IDE's additionally I will be using it for OpenOffice and perhaps browser address bar and forms (I will move the mouse thank you ;-))... I see three possible routes which is best: 1. Use something from ports (it is ok if I have to write a few glue scripts) 2. Use wine but I have never gotten anything to work correctly on it 3. Install virtual box and then install windows 7 and hope that the sound card mic works with it and buy Dragon and then use PuTTY to get to the command line of the host OS My preference is in the same order if possible