<div dir="ltr">That's interesting... I just read a wiki on this (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_software_for_Linux">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_software_for_Linux</a>) and smartphones record you and "<span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">submit the audio file to a remote server for converting the audio file into a text string... </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px">because they do not have the performance and disk space to process the speech recognition on the phone."</span><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 7:57 AM, Matthew Crews <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mattcrews@mattcrews.com" target="_blank">mattcrews@mattcrews.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="m_1205814477079009218WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From what I’m reading, this is one area that Linux struggles in compared to other operating systems. My guess is because voice recognition in general isn’t easy in the first place.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The Arch Linux wiki apparently has a list of available software. Pretty sure most of them are available on the other distros.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><a href="https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Speech_recognition" target="_blank">https://wiki.archlinux.org/<wbr>index.php/Speech_recognition</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">But it also depends what you want. Do you want voice dictation for writing (Dragon Naturally Speaking), or do you want voice commands (OK Google, Cortana, Siri, etc)?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Worst case scenario, you could just run Windows 10 in a VM or something, lol.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">-Matt</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> PLUG-discuss [mailto:<a href="mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss-bounces@<wbr>lists.phxlinux.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 18, 2017 8:57 PM<br><b>To:</b> PLUG <<a href="mailto:plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org" target="_blank">plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.<wbr>org</a>><br><b>Subject:</b> voice recognition software</span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal">You know.... my android recognizes most of what I tell it to type. Android is linux. so what is a good voice program I could apt-get?<br clear="all"></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div><p class="MsoNormal">-- </p><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div></div>
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