Alright then, lets have at it...

Wouldn't it be nice to 'speak' to your tablet, rather than typing? The obvious benefits of such a capability are dictating an email and taking quick notes. The less obvious benefits are ultra-low bandwidth voice communication over the net, searching for directions to a place, or controlling your homes lighting.

But the implications of such an endeavour go beyond the internet tablets. As far as I can tell, speech to text is elusive in the world of open source (I could be wrong about this). If a generic library could be created, it would not only benefit the internet community, but the open source community as well.

This is a solvable problem. The OMAP hardware has provisions to enable speech to text via the DSP. Moreover, speech to text isn't new, but a quite mature concept, with much information around. I believe that a simple primitive library could be created that, with aide of a dictionary, could allow us to speak to our tablets.

Feel free to chime in if you have any unique ideas about how speech to text could be utilized on the tablet, ways it could/should be implemented, links, or code snippets.


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Capt'n Corrupt