Re: voicekey

[Noam Postavsky]

On Tue, 14 May 2019 at 19:33, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:
> I just found out about http://sourceforge.net/projects/voicekey/,
> which is "A voice-controlled keyboard for GNU/Linux built on sphinx."

A couple of years ago I was working on a laptop and finding it very
uncomfortable, so I looked into some voice control software. I ended
up solving my problems instead with an external monitor to allow
better posture, so I kind of lost interest before actually trying
anything out. Though I did organize the listing in the EmacsWiki
first[1]. There's not much out there, nothing actively maintained, and
voicekey seems to be the only one based on a Free speech-recognition
engine.

[1]: https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SpeechToText

> Would someone like to see if this can work in a 100% free system?
> Or, if not, why not?

I attempted to make it work, but I got stuck at producing the .DMP
files. Apparently this is an obsolete format, so the current Sphinx
tools don't produce it, and I couldn't find the lm3g2dmp tool which
voicekey's docs suggest to use.