Thread: Kenny was a wise man!
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wmarone is offline wmarone
2011-05-02 , 05:42
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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
I think it has a lot to do with Linux.
It has nothing to do with Linux because Linux is no one thing (at least, not in common parlance.)

I don't think it's accurate to say it has been of little interest. Kindles have text to speech and they are based on Linux, for example.
Text to speech is different from speech to text (voice recognition.) TTS has been a solved problem for a while, and there are numerous solutions in Linux. Speech to text is much more difficult and requires more specialized knowledge that doesn't have much presence or interest in the various open source communities.

Heck there's a whole article on it at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_...ition_in_Linux