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Re: Continuous speech recognition for amd64 Debian

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Richard Owlett wrote:

> As a two finger typist I wish continuous speech recognition for note
> taking and composing emails. Unfortunately, the only end user speech
> recognition in Debian is Pocketsphinx which is command and control
> oriented.
> 
> When I asked on debian-accessibility, I was pointed to Mozilla
> Deepspeech. Reviewing material on the web it seems to be a good match
> for my use case. However, I found an article suggesting Mozilla was
> winding down its development. [
>
https://venturebeat.com/2021/04/12/mozilla-winds-down-deepspeech-development-announces-grant-program/
> ]
> 
> Except for work tightly bonded to Raspberry Pi hardware, I don't find
> any Debian references less that two/three years old. Is there any
> current activity relevant to amd64 Debian?

I am sceptical regarding open source. Some 10y ago there were very good
windows products based on ViaVoice that could adapt to your voice, diction
etc.

Deepspeech sounds promising - but it was not available 10y ago when I was
doing research at the university :)

regards

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Continuous speech recognition for amd64 Debian Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2021-05-22 15:20 +0200
  Re: Continuous speech recognition for amd64 Debian deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2021-05-22 17:20 +0200
    Re: Continuous speech recognition for amd64 Debian ellanios82 <ellanios82@gmail.com> - 2021-05-22 17:50 +0200

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