Ok, I just got my HTC Magic and I looked up a few bits of Android. Apparently, the voice recognition system in it is now open source. This means, ladies and gentlemen, the world of Linux could get speech recognition!

I need someone, anyone, to look it up and confirm it's status. Then I will raise hell until it's in here. You have NO IDEA what this technology could do!

Oh! I know this one!

... It COULD recognize your voice, right?

But yeah. This should definitely make it into one of the Linux desktops... It would be SO good!

Indeed. Think of how many people this would help! Disabled folks, very busy people...

One of openSUSE's GSOC projects is for a speech recognition system. Per the rules of GSOC it is an open-source project.

Talking to the computer is always the coolest way to tell this stupid thing what it should do... imaging yelling at your pc because it doesn't want to do what you want - and it answers back the way you like it

Remeber Scotty in Star Trek IV talking to the mouse in order to communicate with it... well it failed but maybe where are close to have a simple communication in the future... that would be awesome

Yes, but I also remember my brother attempting to use the speech recognition system in Vista. Oh dear!
"Start."
"No, Start."
"Start!"
"Right, Control panel."
"Control panel!!"

Web browsing:
"Address."
"Address!"
"Right. OK. Google.com."
"No! You..."
"Gah!!!"

I also remember in Star Trek Voyager when one of the crew approaches the soup dispenser for the first time. "Tomato soup."
"Would you like: plain, spicy, seasoned..."
"Plain."
"Would you like: hot, cold, luke-warm..."
"Hot. Just give me hot, plain tomato soup!"

Here is the report on the "final" state of the GSOC project: http://bolta-gecko.blogspot.com/2009/08 ... eport.html

I use quotes because the developer says he/she will continue working on it after the end og GSOC.

Ooooh!

Please, KDE devs, see about putting it in KDE! PWEASE!

Ok, yes, make sure it's stable first and all that...

What about this?

SIMON is limited. It's input goes something like this;

"Programs"...*grid showing possible programs comes up on screen* "1" *thats the name of the grid containing Firefox*


thats about it, brilliant for the disabled, HELL for anyone who can use a keyboard.

Integrating the GSOC project with krunner would be great. Just say a krunner command and it runs it.