Voice Recognition

[willrandship]

I was wondering if this was possible. So far it seems we don't have much use for the mic, and it would be really cool to have, say, a word processor we just talk to, something along the lines of dragon.

Here's an open source speech interpretation program called Open Mind Speech. News hasn't changed since 2000, but the source download is still up, as it's hosted on sourceforge.

 

[joseluisjazz]

I'm interested too in being able to communicate with my Pandora via voice recognition. Very interesting for using it in a car for example.

Here's a list of apps which I hope at least one could be useful for what we want.

 

[r00tw00t]

Does the microphone even work?? Never heard or seen it been tested

 

[GreenDream]

I was about to download one of those apps to test on my Pandora :unsure:
Ah, sometimes dreams feel too real

 

[willrandship]

Of course it works! if it didn't work, why would they still be mentioning it among the pandora's features? although unless something like this comes out, I doubt anyone would actually notice

.<br><br>Most people using skype or other phone services regularly would probably have a bluteooth headset anyways.<br><br>EDIT: BTW, the simon one looks the most useful to me, since it was designed for blind people there's probably almost no need for a keyboard at all.<br><br>I'm seeing programming through voice now...we will get less carpel tunnel but more hoarse throats. <img class="bbc_emoticon" alt=":lol:" src="http://www.gp32x.de/board/public/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif"><br>

 

[kingoddball]

It should not be a problem.
As long as someone can program it.
N900 has no voice recognition by default - there is a user made program that gives voice recog.

Should work find for Pandora if someone can make one.

 

[willrandship]

Too bad there's no ARM build for any of those. What would be really nice would be if it had typing modes that would be entered with a mouse click, and regular commands otherwise.

For instance, I'm starting abiWord, so I click the little button in the taskbar to change to typing mode. Then, when I change to something else I click it again!

Eliza could talk to you directly...spooky!

 

[WizardStan]

Sphinx is in the Angstrom repository. It's a speech recognition engine. There's a perl library that uses it and flite for speech synthesis to programatically do basically anything. Write a program that runs as a daemon listening for certain words and sends commands or actions based on context. If you can figure out how to program it right. I've been having trouble testing it on my BeagleBoard on account the BeagleBoards microphone jack is unpowered and I don't have a suitably powered microphone, but the Pandora's microphone should work just fine. In theory, sphinx should just work and anything that uses it as an engine should as well.

 

[Polossatik]

While it's a cool idea, voice recognition in general can be quite problematic, using the build in mic of a laptop (or pandora) will almost not work unless you are in a very quite room, even with a headset on a PC you need fairly low ambient noise and lot of "training" of the software to get some usefull results.
Voice recognition also uses a fair amount of cpu (compared to mouse/nub), so you will be limiting your batterylife more.

Not saying it's utterly useless, it can work good in certain conditions, but don't expect it to work like in movies ...

 

[paddy]

Good thought tho ,why has the mic not been shown on any vids so far ,even just confirmation it works ,but yes i would really like to know if it works and is it usefull enough to use on skype or messenger ?

 

[WizardStan]

Simply something like

cat /dev/dsp > /dev/dsp

then talk into the microphone. It should be echoed back through the speakers a second later. This is about as direct to the hardware as it can get and totally agnostic to the sound system and audio mixers in place. Just take what comes in on the microphone and dump it directly to the speaker. It may be a little quiet, especially if the audio mixer has a mic boost feature, but it'd be enough to prove that the microphone at least physically works.

 

[fusion_power]

Does the microphone even work?? Never heard or seen it been tested

+1

I thought I'm the only one who noticed, that the Mic never was featured in a Video or even mentined in the last months. I would like to know, what Apps already onto the Pandora that support the Mic.

And because I think we have a special headphone jack that also supports Mic input, is there a Adapter where I could plug my Headset (2 separate 3,5mm plugs for mic and headphone) in the Pandora and use the headset instead of the internal Mic?

 

[Prometheus]

is there a Adapter where I could plug my Headset (2 separate 3,5mm plugs for mic and headphone) in the Pandora and use the headset instead of the internal Mic?

I would like to know this, also. I have a separate clip-on microphone and a pair of headphones which I love, and being able to use them in this fashion if needed would be handy.

 

[droneb]

im working on something alike in java, not only voice recognition, but it would be nice every kind of user/computer interaction
towards mobility

 

[Pleng]

I thought I'm the only one who noticed, that the Mic never was featured in a Video or even mentined in the last months. I would like to know, what Apps already onto the Pandora that support the Mic.

They're saving that for next time they need to cover up that they've failed to get something done on time. Mic will be the new WiFi!!

And because I think we have a special headphone jack that also supports Mic input, is there a Adapter where I could plug my Headset (2 separate 3,5mm plugs for mic and headphone) in the Pandora and use the headset instead of the internal Mic?

If there isn't, and I'm sure there must be one - I just have NO idea what exactly to search for - then they'd be fairly easy to build.