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2007-02-24 , 12:01
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Originally Posted by mwiktowy View Post
While there is a text-to-speech engine (flite) available, what you want is the other way around ... a speech recognition app. I have not heard of one for the N800. Unfortunately, I would suspect that there won't be since speech recognition is pretty CPU intensive and the N800 isn't a huge number cruncher. You never know though. Someone might find an efficient enough algorithm that matches the capability of the N800 so I would never say never.
IBM did it on my Pentium 75 with 64 MB of RAM, ten years ago, with a software-only solution. Granted, that was OS/2, so the rest of the world will probably have to wait another decade.

So, no: voice recognition is not that CPU-intensive (these days). It is, however, quite algorithm-intensive, which seems to be what is lacking in the postmodern world.