From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 27 22:36:31 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 964331065677 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:36:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (unknown [IPv6:2607:f678:1010::34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F3B98FC08 for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:36:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from agora.rdrop.com (66@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.12.7) with ESMTP id q2RMaUFN065655 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:36:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by agora.rdrop.com (8.13.1/8.14.2/Submit) with UUCP id q2RMaUj9065654 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:36:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from perryh@pluto.rain.com) Received: from fbsd81 ([192.168.200.81]) by pluto.rain.com (4.1/SMI-4.1-pluto-M2060407) id AA05569; Tue, 27 Mar 12 14:28:48 PST Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:28:03 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-Id: <4f72a163.BN/IQBnOEGq9Deqd%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <201203261921.q2QJL8te040400@x.it.okstate.edu> <20120327001258.85f6a4fc.freebsd@edvax.de> <20336.62110.137137.843856@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20120327064144.6980b337@scorpio> In-Reply-To: <20120327064144.6980b337@scorpio> User-Agent: nail 11.25 7/29/05 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Off-Topic: Computing for the Blind X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:36:31 -0000 Jerry wrote: > When it comes to "speech recognition", the only two applications > that seem to work reliably at all levels are "Siri on iPhone 4S" > and "Dragon NaturallySpeaking", neither of which are obviously > available on FreeBSD. I don't believe that there is even a > *nix/BSD version of "Dragon NaturallySpeaking" in production. The Windows version of "Dragon NaturallySpeaking" is, however, reputed to work well on wine, which is in ports. One of the D-NS developers (or maybe it was a tech support person) was helping out on the wine-users forum for a while; I don't recall having seen her post there recently, but this _might_ be because D-NS is working so well with recent wine versions that no one needs help with it.