{"id":1664,"date":"2016-03-13T13:55:05","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T21:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2016-03-13T13:55:05","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T21:55:05","slug":"dragon-naturally-speaking-12-5-w-playonlinux-and-platypus-for-interaction-with-other-linux-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2016\/03\/13\/dragon-naturally-speaking-12-5-w-playonlinux-and-platypus-for-interaction-with-other-linux-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Dragon Naturally Speaking 12.5 w\/ PlayOnLinux and Platypus for interaction with other Linux applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

These instructions are for Ubuntu, though I’m using Linux Mint Mate 17<\/p>\n

I modified the instructions at http:\/\/thenerdshow.com\/platypus.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Install PlayOnLinux<\/p>\n

Add a 386 version of Wine 1.7 with PlayOnLinux<\/p>\n

Install Dragon Naturally Speaking steps<\/p>\n

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  1. With package manager add the following packages? Try without first since using wine 1.7\n
    wine1.3-dev libx11-dev libxtst-dev x11proto-core-dev<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  2. . libX11.so is not located where you expect; the following instructions are a workaround in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty):\n
    if [ -f \/usr\/lib\/i386-linux-gnu\/libX11.so ] ; then\n    sudo ln -s \/usr\/lib\/i386-linux-gnu\/libX11.so \/usr\/lib\/libX11.so\nelse\n    sudo ln -s \/usr\/lib\/x86_64-linux-gnu\/libX11.so  \/usr\/lib\/libX11.so\nfi\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  3. Install Dragon Naturally Speaking with PlayOnLinux into i386 version of wine 1.7<\/li>\n
  4. Download<\/a> Platypus<\/li>\n
  5. Unzip the archive and install to $HOME\/.dictation.  Again, do not use root<\/a>.\n
    export WINEPREFIX=$HOME\/.PlayOnLinux\/wineprefix\/dragon<\/pre>\n
    .\/configure<\/pre>\n
    make<\/pre>\n
    make install<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
  6. To start using Playpus\n
      \n
    1. Select which microphone to use:\n
          alsamixer -c0 -V capture\n    (or make a custom amixer script)\n<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n
    2. Start Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Applications–Wine–Programs)<\/li>\n
    3. Turn on Dragon’s microphone<\/li>\n
    4. Start Platypus from the desktop icon.<\/li>\n
    5. Open any Linux application and start dictating.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
      These instructions are for Ubuntu, though I’m using Linux Mint Mate 17 I modified the instructions at http:\/\/thenerdshow.com\/platypus.html Install PlayOnLinux Add a 386 version of Wine 1.7 with PlayOnLinux Install Dragon Naturally Speaking steps With package manager add the following packages? Try without first since using wine 1.7 wine1.3-dev libx11-dev libxtst-dev x11proto-core-dev . libX11.so is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}