Speech to Text Support in OLPC

[satya komaragiri]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Sameer Verma <sverma at sfsu.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 3:09 AM, satya komaragiri
> <satya.komaragiri at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi
>> @ Assim and Chris: Thank you for your response :)
>>
>> I'll be really grateful if you could tell me what the current scenario
>> for Speech to text on XO is. And whether the OLPC cmmunity would be
>> interested in having a speech to text support
>
> Speech to Text would be of immense use IMO. I'm thinking of family
> members who cannot read or write. Imagine them being able to speak
> into the XO to send e-mails. This reminds me of a time when village
> folk would come to my grandmother's to get a [snail mail] letter read
> because they couldn't read or to write a reply by dictating it to
> someone.
>
> Or, imagine speaking into the XO and seeing the letters appear as you
> speak and being able to recognize the shape and form of basic and
> commonly words.
>
> Speech to text would be awesome!
>
> Sameer
> --
> Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
> Associate Professor of Information Systems
> San Francisco State University
> San Francisco CA 94132 USA
> http://verma.sfsu.edu/
> http://opensource.sfsu.edu/
>

Thank you very much :)

Regards
Satya