Tag Archives: mandriva

PocketSpinx voice recognition with GStreamer and Mandriva

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Wolverine

I’ve recently bumped upon an open source speech recognition software for Linux based on the CMU Sphinx project called PocketSphinx. Unfortunately standard Mandriva repositories doesn’t have this PocketSphinx library in the 64 bit arch version. So I’ve downloaded SphinxBase and … Continue reading →

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Slow connection requests under Linux

Posted on November 25, 2010 by Wolverine

Hello again. Few posts before I have talked about slow web requests in Firefox running in Linux, namely Mandriva 2010.1. Just to remind what the issue was in short. Firefox when  making connection, staled for few seconds when performing DNS … Continue reading →

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Python RSVG not found under Mandriva

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Wolverine

Just another quick comment with solution to problems with rendering SVG vector images under Python in Mandriva 2010.1. I was testing Python Cairo (PyCairo) and Python wrapper around RSVG library, trying to render SVG image using PyGame surface. It seemed … Continue reading →

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