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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@brontide: Did you test it?

How reliable is it?

Well, I haven't tried it, but the intended plan is to use it from your cell phone. As we all know, the ITs aren't phones, but it can even work from a land-line, and you can have it send stuff back to you via email... So if you can dial landlines via Skype/Gizmo/SIP/whatever you prefer to use, it should work.

Sphinx or pocket sphinx would be worth trying.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Speech-Recognition-HOWTO/ has a list of some stuff...

Sphinx does indeed look promising.

Oh, and dupe thread !

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=18513 has some more recommendations, being exactly on the same topic.