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praka123
praka123 Original post #1
Nov 17, 2007 at 9:09 PM
Gnome-Voice-Control is a speech recognizer to control the GNOME Desktop. It is developed on Google Summer of Code 2007.
The idea is to develop some features that will improve the usability in the Gnome Desktop. The goal is to implement a Desktop Voice Control System. The system consists in an application that will be monitoring the audio input(microphone) and when a significant audio signal has been detected, the software catches, processes and recognizes the signal and then executes the desired action over the Gnome Desktop. In a set of actions could include maximize, minimize, close the active window; open a specific program; switching from one desktop to another; among others. The software will be implemented in C language in conjunction with CMU Sphinx, which is an open source tool, created to recognize and decode audio files in word list files. The software will be developed as a Gnome applet.

If you'd like to have a quick start, look at screencast here



Where to get it?
  • Latest version
  • All Releases
  • gnome-voice-control-0.2 ubuntu package
It requires pocketsphinx, gstreamer and accessibility development libraries. Please note that your interface should be in English since it's the only supported language for now.

*live.gnome.org/GnomeVoiceControl

i wanna try it someday :p .know about festival(speech recogn system),but this is something uber cool :p
*raphaelnunes.wordpress.com/2007/06/29/gnome-voice-control-02-demonstration/
Gigacore
Nov 17, 2007 at 9:49 PM
Thanks!!

BTW, what is Google Summer on Code ?
M
Nov 17, 2007 at 10:03 PM
Gigacore said:
BTW, what is Google Summer on Code ?
*code.google.com/soc/
Gigacore
Nov 17, 2007 at 10:14 PM
Thanks mehul!
Vivek788
Nov 20, 2007 at 11:48 PM
really great..wich check it out
praka123
Nov 21, 2007 at 8:54 PM
so,someone experimented in ubuntu(ubuntu package is there na?).want to know how it scores :)
Vivek788
Jun 3, 2008 at 12:07 AM
I did...we had this installed in a system and was exhibited as part of our Linux Week.It was fun using it.There were issues of noise causing unwanted operations and people had to emulate voice with bass and treble modifications to get it right sometimes..its cool...
praka123
Jun 3, 2008 at 12:10 AM
ha!fine to know that :)