Greetings:

With the CPU power of the Nokia N800 is it possible to add a Voice recogntion software to the N800?

Think about it if a voice recogntion software were to work on the N800, one can place their voice on the N800 convert it to text and send it diectly to your blog page.

Or does anyone out there know of better way to do this?

Regards Robert

Surely, you can do it.
And I have partially ported gnome-voice-control to maemo/N8x0, and it works well(although not very good), more information please search gnome-voice-control and gstreamer, or just email me directly.

Of course, if you truly solve the problem of voice recognition you also mostly solve the keyboard problem by rarely using them.

I would like to sit down and have a heart-to-heart with my N800--and then turn it into a best seller.

Voice recognition for word processing is really painful. You have to speak clear and concise in a place with little background noise. Even if you do so, the voice recognition software will still come up with the wrong word(s). Best use for voice recognition is launching apps.

I actually paid the big bucks for several versions of Dragon Naturallyspeaking Pro, so I'm familiar with the difficulties It will make it to tablets, though, sooner or later.

There are a number of open source speech recognition engines available some of which it may be possible to port to maemo. Probably the most suitable would be PocketSphinx (http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php). The problem is not so much the engine as the language translation files.

Other relevant projects are:
http://www.voxforge.org/
http://www.ece.msstate.edu/research/...ech/index.html
http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en_inde...=en/index.html

A lighter option is voice command (http://perlbox.org/) instead of recognition.

I had investigated this with a view to building something for maemo but currently don't have the time. Perhaps it will be helpful to someone else who fancies a go.

The particular project (perlbox) you mentioned as voice command doesn't seem lighter than voice recognition -- they use Sphinx as a backend to maintain speaker-independence.

But voice command of the sort my old Nokia phone had (~4 years ago), where it simply records you saying a command, then analyzes incoming commands to match it to a known command (without ever trying to decode phonemes), is lighter, and could be quite handy in conjunction with powerlaunch.

I did find a project which was a lighter weight voice command system. I guess I just thought it was perlbox as I remember looking at that at the time. I'll have another look.

A good page showing the "state of the art" is at http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO...ion-HOWTO.html

The voice command system I was thinking of instead of perlbox was CVoiceControl here http://www.kiecza.net/daniel/linux/

Greetings Everyone:

Thankyou very much for keeping this thread alive.

I believe that Voice recogntion would be a great feature for the next Nokia Internet Tablet.

I was very impressed with Intel's conference at CES 2008, showing a Tablet like device able to translate from English to Chiense in audio.

Hopefully someone will develop an excellent voice recogntion apps for the N800 that will change the way we use the tablet.

Nokia I hope your listening

Regards Robert