Voice Recognition for a Techie?

kaybee asks: "I am a long-time developer, sysadmin, and general computer junkie (for fun and for work) who needs to seriously curb the usage of his hands. I'm curious as to the current voice recognition options, preferably usable on Linux and Windows. I prefer the command-line to a GUI, I prefer Vim to anything else, and I still read my email with Pine. I'd like to hear options for sending email via voice, which I hope is easy, and I'd love to hear of any solutions that allow effective coding via voice, which seems much more difficult."

Comments

Computer.... Computer... Hello computer...

[TibbonZero]

Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you said voice recognition for a Trekkie....

Re:Computer.... Computer... Hello computer...

[dbIII]

I thought you said voice recognition for a Trekkie

Not long after the movie with the whales I saw a mouse with integrated microphone for sale - almost worth getting it for trek joke value.

Sysadmining by voice

[Anonymous Coward]

No, computer, I said, "awk single quote left curly print dollar one right curly single quote file dot txt pipe sort pipe uniq dash see greater than a dot out"

shudder

Re:Sysadmining by voice

[Tackhead]

> No, computer, I said, "awk single quote left curly print dollar one right curly single quote file dot txt pipe sort pipe uniq dash see greater than a dot out"

Oh yeah?

{ } . ! /
& ; ^ # -
< > @ \
{ } _ SYSTEM HALTED

Left titty, right titty, dot bang slash.
Ampersand semicolon, caret pound dash.
Less than greater than, at back slash,
left titty, right titty, under score crash.

* # ! ! (
~ & | )
' " . . DEL
# ^G ! ! working... done.

Star pound bang bang, open-paren.
Tilde and pipe, close-paren.
One quote, two quote, dot dot delete,
pound bell, bang bang, process complete.

- Doktor Dynasoar posting some ASCII poetry, and the thread also includes the immortal Hatless Atlas, which I'm not even going to fantasize about getting past the filters.

Re:Sysadmining by voice

[dgatwood]

/ ! [ . * +
$ $ $|-|1+
# 3 11 H E LL
A general protection fault has occurred. A general protection fault has occurred. This application will be terminated.

slash bang open bracket dot star plus,
dollar sign dollar sign code for cuss,
pound three eleven, H-E double-hocky-pucks
BSOD. BSOD. Windows really sucks.

Re:Sysadmining by voice

[amliebsch]

Umm...isn't an "L" a hockey stick? Unless I'm woefully misinformed about the nature of hockey pucks, that is.

Hand use

[Doomstalk]

[...]who needs to seriously curb the usage of his hands.

Lest they... *ahem* wander.

Voice Wreck Ignition

[Anonymous Coward]

Eye won stride to yews voice wreck iginition soft wear tomb ache a slash dot post. Eye was knot imp pressed. It was sofa king we todd did

IBM ViaVoice

[inotocracy]

I was looking to make a headless system that I could bark commands at, and I was quite sucessful at developing my own actually. I used IBM's ViaVoice SDK and modified a few of the sample programs they had that were written in C. It took a little work getting the system running, it being a tad old and all, but eventually got it down to where it was completely useable and could make requests like "new mail" and "talk to me dirty". Oh and yes, it was a Linux system it was running on (Slackware 8).

Google it.

Re:Write it yourself

[ChildeRoland]

Is there a reason you inserted an extraneous comma into your last sentence?