Voice Recognition on linux

2004 May 2 at 23:27 » Tagged as :linux, voice,

I am sorry to report that my attempts to develop a speech recognition system that can run on Linux have been unsuccessful. Despite conducting extensive online searches, I was only able to find outdated information on the subject, with most pages referring to discontinued products such as Viavoice Linux Edition.

More digging reveals things like CMU sphinx, (which seems to have been abandoned in 2002). You run into the occasional nugget where people have tried to install the ViaVoice windows version or dragon naturally speaking on wine, usually without much success.

Unfortunately, speech recognition is not an area that can be easily tackled by independent open-source developers. There is a great deal of tedious work involved, and open-source developers tend to shy away from such projects (linux kernel and glibc probably being the exceptions).

It is not all bad news; you do find some Text To Speech (TTS) engines for the linux platform, hopefully one of these developers will initiate a recognition project and hopefully other developers will join them , i certainly wouldn't mind putting my shoulder to the wheel either.