is anyone using any speech / dictation with Fedora?

[Will Backman]

I have been testing the speech (gnopernicus) which seems to have some
issues.  I installed through the graphical click installer, and it
installed but without proper dependencies.  I then uninstalled and
reinstalled from the command line, and it told me that I needed gnome
speech and a couple other rpms.  Also, it installs assuming that one has
IBM Viavoice.  Installing festival after the fact does not register the
festival voices with gnopernicus.  If you uninstall gnopernicus, install
festival, and then reinstall gnopernicus, it starts speaking.

Mozilla is still not speech enabled.  I plan on testing the new gnome
browser.

> Several years ago, when my wife was writing her Ph.D dissertation, she
> tried the Dragon Dictate product (by Dragon Systems, which I think was
> bought by another company) under Microsoft Windows 98. It did a poor job
>  of recognition despite use of a high quality Shure microphone. She soon
>  gave up on Dragon and returned to typing into Microsoft Word.
>
> Even a 90% recognition rate for Via Voice seems fantastically good. I
> watched Dragon Dictate miss most voice input, even with "training".
>
> Bob
>
>
> Elton Woo wrote:
>
>> I see that IBM's ViaVoice for linux is no longer being developed:
>> http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6383, though it is still
>> available for download from HERE:
>> https://www6.software.ibm.com/dl/viavoice/vvlinux-r?S_PKG=dl
>>
>> Noted, also that there is some move afoot for a suitable open
>> source replacement called Sphinx:
>> http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/sphinx/
>>
>> comments, please?
>>
>> TIA
>> Elton ;-)
>
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