VEDICS (Voice Enabled Desktop Interaction and Control System) is a new Dialog Manager that uses Sphinx 4.

From their web site:

VEDICS (Voice Enabled Desktop Interaction and Control System) is an assistive software which lets the user to interact with the OS using voice commands. VEDICS makes use of Sphinx 4 for doing speech recognition and hence inherits the cool feature of user-independence. That’s right!!! No training is required to use VEDICS!!

VEDICS lets you do the following with your system:

• Perform common window operations like close, minimize, maximize etc.
• Invoke default applications like browsers, mail clients etc.
• Access any element on the desktop just by saying its name.

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