alsuren ([info]alsuren) wrote,
@ 2006-07-16 12:10:00
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dl325 linux # emerge -s @app-accessibility | thisloooksinteresting.me
Searching...
[ Results for search key : app-accessibility ]
[ Applications found : 32 ]

##Useful in conjunction with below (bottom)?##
* app-accessibility/SphinxTrain
Latest version available: 0.9.1-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 458 kB
Homepage: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php
Description: Speech Recognition (Training Module)
License: BSD as-is

##now the demo of this looks muchos swish. I really want to try this now.##
* app-accessibility/dasher
Latest version available: 4.0.2
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 5,666 kB
Homepage: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/
Description: A text entry interface, driven by continuous pointing gestures
License: GPL-2

##would have been useful for Jenny at the installfest##
* app-accessibility/gok
Latest version available: 1.0.10
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 1,122 kB
Homepage: http://www.gok.ca/
Description: Gnome Onscreen Keyboard
License: LGPL-2

##I wonder if any of them are as good as the MacOSX ones (the default voices that come with festival can't pronounce their Gs properly. It makes me sad)##
* app-accessibility/mbrola
Latest version available: 3.0.1h-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 18,980 kB
Homepage: http://tcts.fpms.ac.be/synthesis/mbrola.html
Description: us1, us2, and us3 mbrola voice libraries for Festival TTS
License: MBROLA

##Laurence (in room 3) is implementing something slightly more sophisticated but similar for his EUROP thing. He's working on echo cancellation. The idea being that tourists can use it(see below). Good luck to him I say.##
* app-accessibility/perlbox-voice [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 0.09-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 1,285 kB
Homepage: http://perlbox.org/
Description: A voice enabled application to bring your desktop under your command.
License: GPL-2

##could be interesting if people have remote access to your computer##
* app-accessibility/speechd
Latest version available: 0.56-r1
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 23 kB
Homepage: http://www.speechio.org/
Description: Implements /dev/speech (any text written to /dev/speech will be spoken aloud)
License: GPL-2

##Interesting concept on their homepage in the form of the Let's Go project. There's supposedly a plan to have something similar for Cambridge but for things like hotels etc. too. Sounds to me like "let's get people with an only very tenuous grasp of the english language to talk to computers with even more limited skills". Mistake?##
* app-accessibility/sphinx3 [ Masked ]
Latest version available: 0.6
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 18,995 kB
Homepage: http://fife.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/
Description: CMU Speech Recognition-engine
License: BSD as-is



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[info]crowsty
2006-07-16 12:00 pm UTC (link)
Slightly less mature, but with respect to the speech app, there are a few IRC conversations on the kubuntu wiki where it has been realised that someone present has a text-to-speech engine running.

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[info]alsuren
2006-07-16 12:26 pm UTC (link)
link?

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[info]crowsty
2006-07-16 12:41 pm UTC (link)
Can't seem to find it now, but it was some sort of Ubuntu dev wiki.

Anyway, the two blog posts which I was thinking of as well:
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/2165
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2006/07/and-then-they-got-familiar.html

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