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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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