Speech to Text

[Gregory P. Ennis]

On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 16:38 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sat, 30 May 2009 17:26:13 -0500
> Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> 
> > Can anyone point me in the direction of some opensource speech to text
> > software for the fedora system
> 
> I can pretty much guarantee that anything you find will be a disappointment to
> you.  Good text-to-speech is currently a largely unsolved problem.  Existing
> software requires extensive training and is still not particularly accurate.
> In most cases it's more efficient to listen to dictation and type the text
> yourself.
> 
> -- 
> MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

Frank,

Thanks for the response.  Your note is appropriate with what I am
finding.  Do you know if there is a project working on speech to text.
I would like to monitor there work and help if I can.

Greg