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Speech Recognition: There Actually Is An Open Source Solution

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 22, 2010

“If you happen to have followed the path of speech recognition
software over the years, you know that it’s been a rocky road.
Pundits ranging from Ray Kurzweil to Bill Gates, have, at various
times, proclaimed speech recognition to be the wave of the
computing future, but you probably rely on mice, keyboards and
pointing devices to interact with computers more than microphones.
Today, there is an interesting query posted on Slashdot, asking
whether there is any free, open source software in this area. Well
is there?”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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