Linked by David Adams on Sat 17th May 2008 03:33 UTC, submitted by pas de calais
Andrew Min gives a taster of the open source goodies being developed at Google's Summer of Code: a GUI for Aptitude, a GUI for Grub 2, search based menu browsing for GIMP and Audacity file import/export with FFmpeg amongst others. Read (or listen to) to the full article at Freesoftware Magazine
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Voice recognition is one of those things I am interested in. It seems there is not a single good implementation (with GUI) for Linux platform out there. Atleast none that I have been able to find. So, yeah, I am going to follow how Gabriel Geraldo França Marcondes's project progresses. If he is successful and speech recognition actually works satisfyingly well (I have no idea if that Sphinx2 is any good) then perhaps it'll raise some more interest in Sphinx2 and even convince someone to write a full speech recognition suite for the whole GNOME environment.
Note however that I have no interest in using it, I just don't have any wish to start talking to my computer. It's just that Windows has a gazillion suites for this and I feel Linux is dragging quite a long way behind. Also, this might be good for handicapped people. Oh, and one more thing: being open-source, it would be possible to adapt the suite to any specific environments and tasks. That's something closed-source apps don't allow.
About the rest of the article? The only other thing that interests me is the Control Panel for Wine. If they'd add support for audio/video in Pidgin over the Messenger protocol then I'd be interested, but adding support for that over XMPP? Well...I don't know a single person who'd use that. I do claim that Messenger is used by a whole lot more people so adding audio/video there would benefit more people. (And no, I don't have any numbers to back up my claim. It's just that, a claim, you can disagree if you wish.)