Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: speech to text program?

If the person has Dragon NS then it can be made to run in Wine using
Platypus: http://thenerdshow.com/platypus.html

Unfortunately this is not a Linux only solution.

Roy

Using Kubuntu 10.10, 64-bit
Location: Canada

On 17 February 2011 01:02, Paul <pfrederick1@yahoo.com> wrote:

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> --- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, Joan Leach <jleach728@...> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> pfred1@spot:~$
> Display all 2897 possibilities? (y or n)
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> Root has a few more:
> root@spot:~#
> Display all 3266 possibilities? (y or n)
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> Most of those are teeny tiny little programs.
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> 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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