“Voice control is the next step in human interaction with
computers. Voice recognition, and its flip side, speech synthesis,
can help you streamline your day-to-day work and organize your
Linux desktop in a better way.“To begin conversing with your Linux desktop, download the
Sphinx-2 speech recognition engine and the Festival text to speech
application. Although the CMU Sphinx Group provides several
versions of Sphinx (Sphinx-2, -3, and -4), I use only Sphinx-2, as
it is the fastest. Even though it is not as accurate as Sphinx-3 or
Sphinx-4, it runs in real time, and therefore works well with live
applications…”
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