Re: VRUG hands-free Linux

[http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)]

 > From: Don Olivier <http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/~don>
 > Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 09:31:11 -0400 (EDT)
 >
 > I don't want to be without a voice-controlled computer for more than a
 > few days, ever.  It looks to me as if my best upgrade path would be to
 > 
 >   1 Buy a fast Pentium III or better; that should be all the computer I
 >     want for quite a few years.  Put up Linux on it.
 > 
 >   2 Keep the 120 MHz PI I'm using now, sitting beside it and running
 >     DragonDictate under DOS.
 > 
 >   3 Connect the two machines with ethernet cards or a null modem, and
 >     use the DOS machine as remote terminal for the Linux machine-- a
 >     "voice-recognition terminal" in place of a keyboard.
 > 
 >   4 Put up ViaVoice on the Linux machine, to play with.
 > 
 > That way I'd get all the VR functionality I have now (I assume), where
 > the VR engine can talk to any application, as if it were a keyboard.
 > The down side is that I'd get *only* that functionality (discrete speech
 > at 1995's levels of accuracy), and I'd be marrying myself to a defunct
 > application running on a defunct operating system.

This is just what I do, except I use the Windows 95 version of Dragon
Dictate.