Python can be used together with a speech recognition/generation engine to create voice-enabled applications. Best choice of three approaches examined is dragonfly (http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly/). For videos, see http://bit.ly/JohnGravesPythonNoHands or http://bit.ly/JohnGravesWiki.
17. Resources Inigo Surguy http://www.67bricks.com Speech recognition in Windows using Python http://www.surguy.net/articles/speechrecognition.xml Michael Gundlach Python speech module http://pypi.python.org/pypi/speech/0.5.1 Christo Butcher Dragonfly: Python-based speech recognition framework http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly/ Getting started with VoiceXML 2.0 http://www.w3.org/Voice/Guide/ Don't miss Brian Thorne's talk on Computer Vision at 4 pm http://nz.pycon.org/talks/talk/18/ http://pycam.googlecode.com
18. Resources Full copy of presentation including voice overs and videos: http:// bit.ly / JohnGravesWiki