[mythtv] Voice control of MythTV

Matt Zimmerman mdz at debian.org
Sun Mar 23 23:59:06 EST 2003


On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 08:39:31PM -0700, Jared Hanson wrote:

> Our group would like to open source as much of our project as possible.
> Any changes that we would make to Myth would be, quite obviously.  The
> Palm Voice Remote software would also be, and hopefully other projects
> that need wireless voice input from greater ranges would find that useful.
> The server itself links against Nuance libraries for voice recognition
> capabilities.  The code could be open sourced, but it isn't of much use
> without the libraries.  These libraries used to be available for free ($),
> for development purposes from the Nuance Developer Network.  That has been
> discontinued, however.  Luckily, I obtained copies of all their software
> when the program was still active.  I am currently looking into options
> with regard to this situation.

This sounds interesting, but it seems it won't be possible for anyone to use
it (or help you develop or test it) unless they have copies of these
libraries (which are no longer available), so it's a lot less exciting for
that reason.

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 - mdz


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