Hi Andy, What sort of requirements do you have. Does the voice recognition system need to be locally resident or can the "recognition" part be sent off to a server. This determines the local resource requirements. For local processing you need lots of memory and a ghz processor. Remote recognition leaves you at the whim of the service - think samsung tv or google's data collection. What sort of response times do you need? That is, how many seconds between uttering the voice and receiving a response. Do you need single word recognition, phrase recognition or whole sentence recognition? -David On 02/21/2015 08:05 AM, Andy Stewart wrote:

HI everybody,

Do any of you have experience or recommendations with any Free Software that does speech recognition?

Thanks,

Andy

Sphinx is the gold standard open source part that people plug into other systems. You can read about Firefox integrating it here: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/09/enabling-voice-input-into-the-open-web-and... And a module that is compiled to JavaScript: http://syl22-00.github.io/pocketsphinx.js/live-demo.html They work best with a limited vocabulary, but both are offline. If you are willing to send your days to Google, chromium can be set up with an API key that will send everything to your nearest Google server. Somebody has a not so bad library here: https://www.talater.com/annyang/ It actually uses the same web standard API as the one that should land in Firefox soon, when that above bug is resolved. On Feb 21, 2015 3:06 PM, "Andy Stewart" <andystewart@comcast.net> wrote:

HI everybody,

Do any of you have experience or recommendations with any Free Software that does speech recognition?

Thanks,

Andy

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