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Linux PDA w/Voice Recognition

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ain't-that-interesting dept.

Hotaine writes "Lernout & Hauspie is working on a Linux PDA with speech regognition built-in. " It can do things like read (and record) emails, find weather, do stock quotes or whatever. Of course, you can't go out and simply buy the vaporware yet, but it has potential.

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  1. Linux PDA speech CLI by joshv · · Score: 5

    Me: "p-w-d"

    Computer: "slash"

    Me: "l-s"

    Computer: "slash u-s-r, slash h-o-m-e, slash b-i-n, slash b-o-o-t, slash e-t-c..."

    Me: "cd slash e-t-c"

    Computer: *silent*

    Me: "vi profile"

    computer: (reads file contents)

    Me: "quit"

    computer: "error"

    Me: "exit"

    computer: "error"

    Me: "wq"

    computer: "file is read only"

    Me: "q!"

    That's my kinda computing

    -josh