Can emacsspeak receive voice orders?

Can emacsspeak receive voice orders?

[filebat Mark]

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Hi All

I have just found an interesting tool - emacsspeak(a speech interface) in
the following links.
I am eager to gain some first hand experience for whether I should try this.
Just wondering can emacsspeak recieve voice orders? For example, when I say
"org-mode", it run M-x org-mode, etc.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacSpeak
EmacSpeak
http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
Emacspeak
http://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2010/05/emacspeak-320-luckydog-unleashed.html
Emacspeak 32.0 (LuckyDog) Unleashed
http://sachachua.com/wp/2006/10/emacs-and-a-british-voice/
Emacs and a British voice
http://counterpunch.org/~blinux/emacspeak_voices.html
Voices about Emacspeak
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacspeak
Emacspeak
http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak/
emacspeak

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Denny Zhang

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Re: Can emacsspeak receive voice orders?

[tomas]

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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:13:39PM +0800, filebat Mark wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> I have just found an interesting tool - emacsspeak(a speech interface) in
> the following links.
> I am eager to gain some first hand experience for whether I should try this.
> Just wondering can emacsspeak recieve voice orders? For example, when I say
> "org-mode", it run M-x org-mode, etc.

As far as I understand, Emacsspeak is for transforming text to speech
(and not the other way around). IOW, it will rather *give you* voice
orders ;-)

But I might be mistaken.

Regards
- -- tomás
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Re: Can emacsspeak receive voice orders?

[filebat Mark]

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So it's mainly about conveying messages, and can't taking messages. Right?

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:12 AM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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> On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 10:13:39PM +0800, filebat Mark wrote:
> > Hi All
> >
> > I have just found an interesting tool - emacsspeak(a speech interface) in
> > the following links.
> > I am eager to gain some first hand experience for whether I should try
> this.
> > Just wondering can emacsspeak recieve voice orders? For example, when I
> say
> > "org-mode", it run M-x org-mode, etc.
>
> As far as I understand, Emacsspeak is for transforming text to speech
> (and not the other way around). IOW, it will rather *give you* voice
> orders ;-)
>
> But I might be mistaken.
>
> Regards
> - -- tomás
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Re: Can emacsspeak receive voice orders?

[tomas]

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On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:13:22AM +0800, filebat Mark wrote:
> So it's mainly about conveying messages, and can't taking messages. Right?

As far as I know, yes, that's it. But note that I'm not an authority on
that.

Regards
- -- tomás
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Re: Can emacsspeak receive voice orders?

[Jason White]

tomas@tuxteam.de writes:

> On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 12:13:22AM +0800, filebat Mark wrote:
>> So it's mainly about conveying messages, and can't taking messages. Right?
>
> As far as I know, yes, that's it. But note that I'm not an authority on
> that.

At the moment, it's about speech synthesis, not speech recognition.
However, it would be possible to use the same underlying techniques to
connect emacs to a speech recognizer, if anyone wanted to write code to
do it.

(This message was written under Gnus with Emacspeak running).

Re: Can emacsspeak receive voice orders?

[tomas]

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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 01:16:48PM +1000, Jason White wrote:

[...]

> At the moment, it's about speech synthesis, not speech recognition.
> However, it would be possible to use the same underlying techniques to
> connect emacs to a speech recognizer, if anyone wanted to write code to
> do it.

Thanks for clarification. The following links might be of interest
regarding speech recognition proper:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition>
  -- a good oveerview about what's the state of the art

<http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Speech-Recognition-HOWTO/software.html>
  -- a list of Free and non-Free software packages

Regards
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Re: Can emacsspeak receive voice orders?

[Uday S Reddy]

On 5/18/2010 7:54 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:

>
> Thanks for clarification. The following links might be of interest
> regarding speech recognition proper:
>
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_recognition>
>    -- a good oveerview about what's the state of the art
>
> <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Speech-Recognition-HOWTO/software.html>
>    -- a list of Free and non-Free software packages
>

And this one for voice commands

    http://vocola.net/

Cheers,
Uday

Re: Can emacsspeak receive voice orders?

[Tim X]

filebat Mark <filebat.mark@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi All
>
> I have just found an interesting tool - emacsspeak(a speech interface) in the
> following links.
> I am eager to gain some first hand experience for whether I should try this.
> Just wondering can emacsspeak recieve voice orders? For example, when I say
> "org-mode", it run M-x org-mode, etc.
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacSpeak
> EmacSpeak
> http://emacspeak.sourceforge.net/
> Emacspeak
> http://emacspeak.blogspot.com/2010/05/emacspeak-320-luckydog-unleashed.html
> Emacspeak 32.0 (LuckyDog) Unleashed
> http://sachachua.com/wp/2006/10/emacs-and-a-british-voice/
> Emacs and a British voice
> http://counterpunch.org/~blinux/emacspeak_voices.html
> Voices about Emacspeak
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacspeak
> Emacspeak
> http://code.google.com/p/emacspeak/
> emacspeak
>
> --

Emacspeak is a text-to-speech system for emacs. This means that it will
turn contents of emacs buffers into speech. However, it is not a speech
recongition system, so it cannot respond to spoken commands or any form
of speech input. 

There have been posts regarding this in the past, but I have no real
information. The last time I looked at this sort of thing, sphinx2 was
suggested as a general speech recognition interface for Linux. IBM also
had a version of thier ViaVoice Dictation speech recognition interface,
but I don't know what the status of that is. 

Tim

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