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Re: The HAL factor
by Xanadu on Tuesday 21/Dec/2004, @01:22

> you can't beat the coolness factor having your computer talk to you:-)

Agreed, but, I want to be able to talk to it.

IBM's ViaVoice was fairly good. I have a (oldish) copy of ViaVoice from my MDK 8.0 Pro CD's (and for whatever reson the CD that ViaVoice is on can't be read... :-\ - I'm on Gentoo these days anyway). ViaVoice worked when I used it last. I want to be able to have a mic sitting in front of me and be able to say "Computer play eno" and have music play. Can I do this yet?

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Re: The HAL factor
by falonaj on Tuesday 21/Dec/2004, @02:47

> IBM's ViaVoice was fairly good.

I agree. The problem is that IBM still refuses to make ViaVoice available for Linux endusers.

The speech recognition part is not available at all for Linux. The speech synthesis part of ViaVoice is available on Linux for about half of the languages that are supported on Windows, but only if you buy 300 copies at once for $1500 altogether.

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Re: The HAL factor
by Davide Ferrrari on Wednesday 22/Dec/2004, @00:43

I think that "talking to my PC", with the virtual reality stuff, was the biggest and most useless hype of the past years.
Interfaces should be completely differents to be really usable and useful.

And anyway, even if only used as text typing substitute, let's think about the chaos that would be generated in a tipical office...

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Re: The HAL factor
by Josephine on Thursday 30/Dec/2004, @12:05

SO what keeps you from talking back? Use Sphinx and Perlbox Voice (perlbox.org). Installing Sphinx is really trivial and Perlbox will do the rest. Also, Perlbox has KDE desktop integration. Works like a charm to me...

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