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My buddy and Sun labs cohort Steve Green has just started a new blog. Steve's Search Guy blog is about search technologies and all of the interesting stuff that surrounds search. Steve's most recent entry is about perverse ways to hack google's spelling checker. Steve's a smart and really funny guy, so its probably worth checking out Search Guy every once in a while.

An article at NewsForge: Speak to me, Linux is a quick survey of Linux desktop speech. It includes brief descriptions of the various recognizers (sphinx-[2,3,4]) and synthesizers (festival, flite and freetts) as well as some of the speech apps such as KTTS and Perlbox. The article concludes: The ease of using these speech engines and speech recognition systems could make Linux the preferred OS for the visually impaired. Hmmm ... I've never heard the terms 'ease of use' 'speech' and 'Linux' used together in one sentence before, interesting.