Dictation on Simon

Over the course of the summer, Simon's developers has been working on bringing dictation capabilities to Simon. Now, They're trying to build up a network of developers and researchers that work together to build high accuracy, large vocabulary speech recognition systems for a variety of domains (desktop dictation being just one of them). Even before this project started, Simon already had a "Dictation" command plugin. Basically, this plugin would just write out everything that Simon recognizes. But that's far from everything there is to dictation from a software perspective.

First of all, is necessary to take care of replacing the special words used for punctuation, like ".period", with their associated signs. To do that, Simon's developers implemented a configurable list of string replaces in the dictation plugin. Dictation will improve our project with better recognition of the vocabulary that we'll have between Caribou and Simon.