Use As Voice-activated Car Mp3 Player (like Microsft Sync)

[chris_merris]

Hey guys, I was reading up on Microsoft Sync (http://www.syncmyride.com/#/home/) - and it looks like a pretty cool product (i.e. voice activated control over music while driving, leaving hands free, etc).

I then thought, "Eureeka! I bet the Pandora could do this." And it would be installable on any car. You can only get Sync on a limited number of cars and it has to be factory installed. Pandora is less money and more flexible.

Just think, you could power the Pandora through the AC adapter - hook up a hard drive with all your songs on it, and use Pandora's built-in mic to execute commands like, "Play [Artist Name] [song]" or "Next track", etc...

I would buy the Pandora just for this functionality alone.

I wonder about the feasibility, though, and how far the open source community has come in the realm of speech recognition.

What do you think?

 

[javaJake]

Does the technology exist in Linux? That. Is. The question.

Edit: One google later, and I found a page on this topic specifically in Wikipedia.

 

[sindbad]

Placing a bounty on speech recognition and/or this specific app and advertising that bounty might help.

 

[greendots]

I was thinking this was a good idea for the pandora as well.
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/pocketsphinx/
Theres already an ARM version of speech recognition for linux. The newest version of Sphinx runs in java so that should also work.

 

[funtasticguy]

I have the Sync on my Ford Taurus 08 and it works beautifully. It's amazing on well it works without any voice training.

 

[chris_merris]

I was thinking this was a good idea for the pandora as well.
http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/pocketsphinx/
Theres already an ARM version of speech recognition for linux. The newest version of Sphinx runs in java so that should also work.



Is it pretty accurate? Would it be able to recognize the types of commands needed? Sounds pretty promising.

 

[cb88]

sphinx is experimantal... i did get it to compile once but couldn't get it to work after that....

http://www.kiecza.net/daniel/linux/ << cvoicecontrol works OK ...needs a little training

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/li...control-631489/

i have never been able to get any sphinx to work but i believe it needs a great deal of configureation to work properly and i didn't do that

ah i just noticed perl-box uses sphinx2 ...maybe it configures it or somthing

 

[magicman5421]

voice recognition would be so awesome. i'd be willing to contribute to a bounty on even rudimentary voice recognition for the pandora.