Grasch: A Frank Look at Simon: Where To Go From Here

On his blog, Peter Grasch considers the future for the Simon speech-recognition system for KDE. He is passing the torch and will no longer be actively participating in the project, but he spent some time passing on his knowledge and some thoughts on where things might go from here. In addition, he built a working prototype of a speech-based command and control system for the Plasma desktop called Lera. "If anything, Lera is a starting point. The next steps would be to move Simon's "eventsimulation" library into a separate framework, to be shared between Lera and Simon. Lera could then use this to type out the recognition results (see Simon's Dictation plugin). Then, I would suggest porting a simplified notion of "Scenarios" to Lera, which should only really contain a set of commands, and maybe context information (vocabulary and "grammar" can be synthesized automatically from the command triggers). The implementation of training (acoustic model adaption) would then complete a very sensible, very usable version 1.0."