--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Joan Leach <jleach728@...> wrote:
>
> When I took your string and searched Google:
> speech to text program (Like Dragon) for Linux
> This was the first link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition_in_Linux
> Good luck,Joan in Reno
About what I expected. A program like that is sort of counter to the typical UNIX alike philosophy of lots of little programs. It'd be a huge program! Large programs are a low percentage of the Linux platform.
Neat trick: (the tab completion trick) Hit tab twice at an empty prompt in a terminal to see just how many executables are on your path at any given time.
pfred1@spot:~$
Display all 2897 possibilities? (y or n)
Root has a few more:
root@spot:~#
Display all 3266 possibilities? (y or n)
Most of those are teeny tiny little programs.
I still like to browse Freshmeat now and again just to see what is out there because not everything is always in distribution repositories.
http://freshmeat.net/
Although installing unpackaged software can often be cumbersome, sometimes it is worthwhile.
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