[PLUG] Current state of Linux voice recognition

[Richard Owlett]

On 06/29/2017 02:15 AM, King Beowulf wrote:
> On 06/28/2017 06:52 AM, Richard Owlett wrote:
>> Up until about ten years ago, while still using Windows, I was
>> following  voice recognition. At that time the only option was
>> commercial product  which cost too much and wasn't a good match
>> for my desires at that time.
>>
>> Time has passed and I'm retired. What I'm looking for would be
>> a large vocabulary, single speaker, continuous speech system.
>> The application would be straight text note taking - I'm a slow
>> and lousy typist.
>>
>> I'm already investigating good microphones with good A/D resolution
>> and preferably high sample rate [I've ideas on pre-processing I
>> would like to experiment with].
>>
>> Can anyone recommend some survey articles &/or competent current
>> reviews.
>> TIA
>>
>>
>
> There are a few speech recognition engines that are F/OSS.  A brief
> summery is here:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_software_for_Linux
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_speech_recognition_software
> might still be useful:
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Speech-Recognition-HOWTO/software.html

I had the first Wikipedia article. The software listing of the TLDP 
reference may be dated but the whole article appears to be good guidance 
for more research.

>
> Some leverage Googles speech API - and everything you say gets
> uploaded to Google.

Anything involving Google is a non-stater!

> There are several engines and frontends for GTK and KDE
> (QT).  Quality can be a bit rough, but that depends on your accent and
> how the software engine was/is  trained.
>
> It's been awhile since I played with any of this stuff. The Google API
> was pretty good, but tended to lag a bit - perhaps better now.
>
> -Ed

Thank you.