[blindza] Re: Google speech recognition for NVDA
- From: William Brandes <williambrandes@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:00:09 -0500
nice. what os are you using? i take it this would also work on windows
phone? william
On 3/7/14, Jacob Kruger <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Not sure if someone else has brought this up before, but, it impressed me
> quite a bit right now.
>
> On this page, you'll find the information, and download link for the google
> speech recognition add-in for NVDA:
> http://addons.nvda-project.org/addons/googleSpeechRecognition.en.html
>
> It's only like 300Kb big, and think what it does is literally submit your
> recorded voice clip to something like google's voice recognition engine,
> online, but, it offers a list of 32 languages, and lets you switch between
> them easily, and ue the voice recognition in any editable text field, and,
> for example, the two following bits of text are results:
>
> ek prat nou afrikans
>
> and now i'm speaking english
>
> In other words, it got both of those exactly right, within like 5 seconds,
> and only thing I did find is that I do need to talk a little bit
> carefully/clearly to make sure it recognises what I am saying, but, for thos
> two little bits of text used Afrikaans - obviously - and english GB, and in
> under 5 seconds each, it came back with the results above that literally
> just got pasted into this email's contents.
>
> And, was also very easy to use - NVDA key + Y to toggle between languages
> selected from list, NVDA key + shift + G to start recording, and same to
> stop, and then when it told me result, NVDA key + G, and, voila! LOL!
>
> Stay well
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> "Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet..."
>
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