Features/VoiceControl

Voice Control

Summary

Integration of a voice control software into Fedora.

Owner

• Name: Paolo Leoni

• Email: ulixes84 at yahoo dot it

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 18
• Last updated: 2012-04-26
• Percentage of completion: 0%

Detailed Description

Goal of this feature is to give with Fedora a voice control software in order to help users to interact with system. This feature may be also useful for people with phisical disabilities.

Already exists a good start point, an older gnome applet named Gnome Voice Control. It's based on CMU Sphinx and GStreamer.

Alternatively, there's also Simon Listens, a good project based on Qt.

Development of Gnome Voice Control is ended by some years, but Simon Listens it's currently developped.

I think both they are interesting.

This is only a proposal, my programming skills are weak.

Benefit to Fedora

This feature will provide a new, advanced interaction way and will enhance accessibility for people with disabilities.

Scope

I suppose the big work is to port old application source into new Gnome libraries (Gnome Voice Control isn't updated since 2007).

How To Test

Excluding hardware problems (audio cards), I think this feature needs only some usability tests.

User Experience

User could activate the option "Voice Control" from "Accessibility Applet", so it can start to give some voice commands to pc. Like "BROWSER, MAIL, POWER OFF, etc.."

Dependencies

Old sotfware dependencies are (from original website): libwnck-dev, libatspi-dev, gnome-panel-dev, startup-notification-devel libtool gnome-common intltool cmusphinx3

Contingency Plan

Leave this feature out of the release. No user impact.

Documentation

About CMU Sphinx About Gnome Voice Control About About Simon Listens

Release Notes

Fedora now supports a Voice Control. Thanks to an advanced Voice Recognition software, Fedora can receive some base voice commands directly from your voice.

Comments and Discussion

• See Talk:Features/VoiceControl