[Bradford] Ubuntu's new Head-up display & no menu system

[Robert Burrell Donkin]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Brian <bradlug at techchico.org.uk> wrote:
> Let's hope that they cater for different accents. I've found few speech
> recognition systems that work for me. I've taken the Android one off my
> phone to create more space. I sometimes test my phone system with the US
> 'Tell Me' service. That isn't bad but I do put on a US accent for some
> menus. No matter, there are so many people, from the south of England, that
> I hear on BBC News and Radio Four, who speak mid-atlantic, who will probably
> be just fine with a US accent. I am referring to those who say ged, gedding,
> conservadive, hosbidal, Peeder,Scoddish, Bridish etc. etc. - not to mention
> the American 'leverage'.

I'm in the process of launching a project which aims to be able to
reverse-engineering the dictionaries you need to support accents:
tackling some of the basic science needed. If anyone's interested then
I'd be glad to meet up and talk...

Robert