Voice Recognition For XTension May Be Possible After All...

[George Handley]

Ger,

I'm of the thought that you have just found the missing link James needs to do this project, and $95 USD I think is most reasonable for such a magic toy.

What I don't know from all the fine print and cryptic acronyms is whether or not James will agree. Your find is certainly more developed and promising than my find last night.

Still, I worry that James will say there is still something missing, and look forward to hearing his 02¢ on this newest treasure you found.

Thanks for helping!

James?

Thanks,

George


> On Oct 3, 2017, at 2:05 PM, gerdeter <ger.determan at xs4all.nl <mailto:ger.determan at xs4all.nl>> wrote:
> 
> One beam forming microphone I stumbled upon while searching for digital crossover filters and room correction hardware is https://www.minidsp.com/products/usb-audio-interface/uma-8-microphone-array <https://www.minidsp.com/products/usb-audio-interface/uma-8-microphone-array> 
> It's not chead though.
> 
> ger
> 
>> On 3 Oct 2017, at 16:40, Mike Andrews <mikea0 at gmail.com <mailto:mikea0 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> George,
>> 
>> I know you can do it by stringing together Google  Now, to Auto voice on an  Android tablet with IFTTT and plug-ins to send HTML or such to Xtension.
>> 
>> That "might" mean that Google Home will work for the voice input.
>> 
>> Note that the Amazon Echo has 7 microphones that work to zero in on where the commands are coming from.  I just showed that the light ring on to turns blue in the direction where it's focusing on the voice.
>> 
>> Apple's new ??? device also touts the multiple microphones.
>> 
>> --Mike
>> 
>> On Oct 3, 2017 3:33 AM, "George Handley" <12508handwork at gmail.com <mailto:12508handwork at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> Jerry,
>> 
>> I thought I would try to start a new thread on speech recognition, but I didn't get too far.
>> 
>> James said:
>> 
>>> On Oct 1, 2017, at 7:27 AM, James Sentman <james at sentman.com <mailto:james at sentman.com>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The Voice Recognition that is built into MacOS is really excellent now. I can integrate it with the app in a way that works at least as well as an integration with alexa would and do it without having to have a working internet connection and a full cloud system to back it up. Both ours and theirs since Amazon has no provisions to do anything locally all your systems must be in a static IP cloud based system too so we would need an XTension cloud to bounce the commands through.
>>> 
>>> It’s a non-trivial amount of work and I’m not sure how we would get the sound data back to the computer, blue tooth microphone? I’ll move it up my list of things to experiment with in my spare time ;) But no promises.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>>  James
>> 
>> You were the only one who chimed in. I guess this means there just hasn't been any advancement in this technology for years though Siri and Alexis and the others sure make you think it has.
>> 
>> I spent an hour on the net searching it and short of some $5000 to $10,000 products primarily of software used in medicine and law, there doesn't appear to be any reasonably priced hardware that is the missing link.
>> 
>> I did find one cheap toy on eBay which looked promising, but it will only hold 15 commands. I don't know whether several could be ganged together or not. The price was right @ $21 bucks. (Link below)  I didn't pursue it much further because James is convinced this is a "non-trivial" project and not to be hopeful that it is possible, but it occurs to me that this should've been a done deal sometime ago by somebody, someplace... Technology wise.
>>  
>> Simply put, I need a black box with microphone (Not a headset) that can decipher my own pre-composed sentences and that is ideally connected to XTension through a WizNet board to my ethernet intranet. You can whip one of these out for me can't you? :-)
>> 
>> Seriously, the eBay Chinese toy looks interesting. They only have seven left. The seller does have a number of good ratings so whether they'll make anymore or not I don't know. This may be a dead-end product for them because it may not work. Perhaps someone else on the List has had experience with this company?
>> 
>> It uses an Arduino board
>>  and I know someone who can slap this together for me I think, but I'm wondering what else is wrong with this whole idea in the first place.
>> 
>> Hopefully this post will generate some thought.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> George
>> 
>> https://m.ebay.com/itm/Geeetech-Voice-Recognition-Module-with-microphone-Jumper-cables-for-Arduino-/271818719788?epid=1239613468&hash=item3f49a8822c%3Ag%3AQCAAAOxy2CZTWxeI&_trkparms=pageci%253A7ff11cce-a736-11e7-a442-74dbd180ea0e%257Cparentrq%253Adba8a9da15e0a861cf9fd66afffec58f%257Ciid%253A12 <https://m.ebay.com/itm/Geeetech-Voice-Recognition-Module-with-microphone-Jumper-cables-for-Arduino-/271818719788?epid=1239613468&hash=item3f49a8822c%3Ag%3AQCAAAOxy2CZTWxeI&_trkparms=pageci%253A7ff11cce-a736-11e7-a442-74dbd180ea0e%257Cparentrq%253Adba8a9da15e0a861cf9fd66afffec58f%257Ciid%253A12>
>> 
>> 
>> 
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