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i have a debian squeeze platform and i want it to do voice recognition so that i can open and close applications by talking to the computer. i also want to be able to use speech to text so i can talk to the computer and have it automatically type it into a word document, comment box, or searchbar automatically depending on what i am telling it
i know that there are many projects on this but i have been unable to find an application that works well for me, i recently tried perl voicebox but to no avail when i ran the command it just gave me an error (i can't recreate it and copy the text because i have already uninstalled it). so i just decided to move on but based on your experience what is the easiest and most simple application that you have gotten to work and was easy to install.
i have already read the wikipedia page and have looked into almost all of the free ones but to no avail. vedics worked for some time but when i tried to install it on my laptop and started it through command line i get a bunch of errors that i have no idea what they meant
alright i just installed vedics on my debian laptop and tried to start it through command line once again and got this error in the terminal
Code:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyVEDICS/vedics.py", line 180, in startVedics
vedics = Vedics()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyVEDICS/vedics.py", line 40, in __init__
self.buildCommands()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyVEDICS/vedics.py", line 71, in buildCommands
self.currentCommandList = self.commandBuilder.getCurrentCommands()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyVEDICS/commandBuilder.py", line 66, in getCurrentCommands
return self.createCurrentCommands()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyVEDICS/commandBuilder.py", line 45, in createCurrentCommands
return self.currentManager.getCurrentCommands()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyVEDICS/current.py", line 145, in getCurrentCommands
self.createAccessibleList()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/pyVEDICS/current.py", line 135, in createAccessibleList
for app in accessibleList :
UnboundLocalError: local variable 'accessibleList' referenced before assignment
so your saying that i should update python since the latest version came out recently and the version of python that was pre-installed on the debian dvd isn't the newest nor do i think that the latest version of python is on the repo server. i'll give it a try
Have you looked into Orca? It was installed on the Fedora 15 live cd so you can check it out on that if you wish.. I personally found it to be a pain in the ass but it seems to be full featured. '
orca is a text reader not a voice recognition program so thats not what i am looking for
isn't orca the program with the killer whale and pen as the icon because if it is then thats not what i am looking for. why do all the google searches and some forum responses bring up text reading software.
i just discovered something called sphinx2 on the debian software repositories, it says it's a tool kit so i was guessing that there may be something that was added to the applications menu but i see nothing. do i have to manually add something to the applications menu (i had to do that with google chrome for some reason) or do i need to install another program that can interact with sphinx
I had Sphinx recommended to me. I downloaded it but I can't figure out how to make it work, but I'm really new to linux and I'm totally lost in terminal mode. you might have better luck.
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