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An overview of speech recognition for Linux.
Overview
Currently there is no fully functioning commercial or free voice recognition products for Linux. Below is information about what is available.
Open Mind Speech
The Open Mind Speech project is part of the Open Mind Initiative and aims to develop free (GPL) speech recognition tools and applications, mainly for Linux . The software will be designed so that it can be easily integrated into any application, window manager or desktop environments (KDE and Gnome).
CVoice Control
CVoiceControl (which stands for Console Voice Control) started its life as KVoiceControl (KDE Voice Control). It is a basic speech recognition system that allows a user to execute Linux commands by using spoken commands. CVoiceControl replaces KVoiceControl.
The software includes a microphone level configuration utility, a vocabulary "model editor" for adding new commands and utterances, and the speech recognition system.