[blindza] Re: Google speech recognition for NVDA
- From: William Brandes <williambrandes@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 10:17:27 -0500
thanks and good morning ...
On 3/7/14, Jacob Kruger <jacob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Think so, since while I am running it on windows7 64 bit, am sure it uses
> google's voice recognition engine, online - no way 300Kb could include a
> local implementation of a voice recognition engine, and since they
> specifically refer to google engine, am pretty sure they just, in background
>
> record sound clip, and submit it to online engine, and, just tried it out
> inside my one windows XP virtual machine that I can run inside this windows7
>
> machine, using same version of NVDA 2013.3, with that add-in installed, and
>
> it got voice recognition right there as well, without any issues.
>
> Stay well
>
> Jacob Kruger
> Blind Biker
> Skype: BlindZA
> "Roger Wilco wants to welcome you...to the space janitor's closet..."
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William Brandes" <williambrandes@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, 07 March, 2014 4:00 PM
> Subject: [blindza] Re: Google speech recognition for NVDA
>
>
>> 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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