[Kde-accessibility] Fwd: Re: paraphlegic KDE support

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Thursday 23 February 2006 14:10, Willie Walker wrote:
> Hi Gary:
> In other words, this mysterious GVOKian thing would interface
> directly with a speech recognition engine and drive/interact with
> applications via the AT-SPI.

Yes.  That's what I had in mind.

> Having said that, our engine choices on the Linux desktop are rather
> slim.  Sphinx-3{.3} can get you some places, but it's only going to
> have dictation-style grammars and not the annotated BNF-style
> grammars that are typically used for command and control.  Sphinx-4
> will get you both n-Gram and CFG grammars, but it is in Java, which
> seems to cause a curious allergic reaction around these parts.  In
> addition, their performance/accuracy need work to make them truly
> viable interactive desktop engines.  Other options have licensing
> hairballs.

Hmm, I have the allergy you mention..

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
KDE Text-to-Speech Maintainer
http://accessibility.kde.org/developer/kttsd/index.php