Received: from nobody by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyxft-00028R-8G for lojban-newreal@lojban.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:56:33 -0800 Received: from rlpowell by stodi.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1Xyxfr-00027Y-Hc; Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:56:31 -0800 Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 22:56:31 -0800 From: Robin Lee Powell To: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E9nistant?= Cc: webmaster@lojban.org, lojban@lojban.org Subject: Re: Lojban for Speech Recognition Message-ID: <20141211065631.GC12891@stodi.digitalkingdom.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christian =?iso-8859-1?Q?B=E9nistant?= , webmaster@lojban.org, lojban@lojban.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) This is potentially interesting to mavy members of the community, but I'll warn you that you're not the first to notice that this would be a good idea, and so far no-one's actually tried to put in the work to get it done. Regardless, I'd suggest posting this to the mailing list and seeing who is interested. See http://www.lojban.org/tiki/Lojbanic+Forums On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 10:57:07AM +0800, Christian Bénistant wrote: > Hello Lojbanists, > > I hope this message will reach you well. > > I am contacting you as I have been interested in Lojban for several weeks, > thinking about it as a solution to develop controlling of computer by > speech and I am looking for getting a better idea on the issues that I > could meet in developing such application. > > I have been disappointed by current speech recognition system and I am > doubting whether it could ever become really efficient. I am especially > thinking about playing video games or using speech recognition for > multitasking, few examples would be to be able to control my computer as > follow: > > - Without showing me, open word, write blablabla... save on the desktop, > quit word > - When I say "go", do this, this and this. > > I understood that Lojban's design has been optimized for being well > understandable by a machine and I would like to have a better idea on how > much it could suit for this application. > > In addition, I would imagine that with the world of gamers becoming larger > and larger on the internet, the application of lojban in gaming would be a > good way to help the language to become more popular. > At the beginning, full pre-made sentences could be available, allowing > users to use it without needing to deeply learn the language, but it may > also help to not require to develop a too much performant parsing tool at a > first step. > > I am not an informatics guy unfortunately, but I hope this topic can catch > your attention, please if possible could you provide me some contacts of > people from your community most adapted to discuss about it ? > > Thanks a lot, > > Regards. > > Chris > > -- > CB > cbenistant@gmail.com -- http://intelligence.org/ : Our last, best hope for a fantastic future. .i ko na cpedu lo nu stidi vau loi jbopre .i dafsku lu na go'i li'u .e lu go'i li'u .i ji'a go'i lu na'e go'i li'u .e lu go'i na'i li'u .e lu no'e go'i li'u .e lu to'e go'i li'u .e lu lo mamta be do cu sofybakni li'u