Alan Richmond

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Merlyn: Computer Control by Speech Recognition

Merlyn Computer Control by Speech

Merlyn is a Python program for computer control by speech. It uses the CMU PocketSphinx system, and is capable of supporting many tasks that you might want to do on a regular PC, using voice only. It is currently Linux only and is an alpha release for proof-of-concept. In particular, you can: play local music files open…

Create Your Own Ubuntu-respin Linux Distro

AI Linux

Do you want to create your own customised version of Ubuntu? This article shows you how to use VirtualBox and PinguyBuilder to do that! This post is kind of a sequel to Create Your Own Debian-based Linux Distro that I posted some years ago. At that time I wanted an operating system (OS) that would be just…

Recommended Online Courses in Computing, Science & Mathematics

These are MOOCs or Online Courses in Computing that I have taken or am in the process of taking, that I found to be particularly good in a number of ways. For me, it’s important that the presenter presents well. I’m easily distracted by verbal tics – y’know, ok, um err? And of course, the…

LFCS: Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator

LFCS

This is an effort to provide a set of links to material that should be helpful in studying for the Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS) exam. Their site only provides a list of the required topics, without going into any detail, so I can’t be sure if these links will cover too much or too little depth…