Speech to Text Support in OLPC

[satya komaragiri]

Hello

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 5:22 AM, Mitch Bradley <wmb at laptop.org> wrote:
> Having worked for several years for a company that was doing speech
> recognition, I'll be very interested to see how well it works on XO.  I
> must admit that I'll be rather surprised if it works well enough to be
> "usable" except under very limited conditions and low expectations.
> Isolated-word or short-phrase-in-limited-context recognition can work
> well, but requires a lot of processing power and memory.  Training to a
> particular speaker can help, but that is not an easy task either, and
> requires additional memory.  Connected-speech recognition is extremely
> difficult.
>

The scenario of Speech to Text in open source is somewhat bad. Nobody
has put in a big effort unlike the one that has gone into the Web 2.0
bubble. So sadly we have to make do with what effort that has probably
taken place. A nice effort towards utilizing such tools for the end
user can result in reviving interest here. We can never know unless we
try. And I'll try my best. :)

Regards
Satya

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