Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 22:05:58 +0100 From: "Joachim Dagerot" <jd@dagerot.com> To: Henry Miller <hmiller@intradyn.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting a microphone to work Message-ID: <200502022105.j12L5w9Z027219@mail-core.space2u.com>
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>>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.
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