satelliteuser083 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 (edited) This is not actually so much a linux problem as a 'basics' one; sorry if this is the wrong medium, but I thought that some linux-guru might be able to help :huh: . Does anyone know of the existance of an application for "audio-to-text" conversion, i.e. similar to an OCR but using speech as its input (instead of print)? A long shot, I imagine, but who knows....? Have just found out that this technique is called "speech recognition". Is there anything in linux? Edited March 12, 2006 by satelliteuser083 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 http://linux-sound.org/speech.html I searched somemore and it seems older versions of Mandrake (8.0 and earlier) came with IBM's ViaVoice. Perhaps an old Mandrake user still has it on a CDrom. I'm afraid I only started using Mandrake with 9.0 so can't help you there. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted March 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Many thanks for your information. I've also done some searching (using your initial link), and found some similar data. Would an older CDROM be installable into LE2005, though? I certainly wouldn't know how to do that :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Depends on the dependencies. :) (Can't tell till I tried it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted March 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Picking up on devries' suggestion, I don't suppose that any "old Mandrake user" still DOES have a CDROM lying around of Mandrake 8.0 (or even 7.2) with IBM's ViaVoice on it, that he or she would be prepared to donate/sell to me? B) Any help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 13, 2006 Report Share Posted March 13, 2006 I have a Mandrake 7.2 CD lying around somewhere back in the UK. I'm not there until about September time though. I'll see if I can find some links on the net for previous releases. EDIT: not been able to find anything as of yet. Also, my 7.2 was off a cover disk, so unsure that it has anything like viavoice with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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