Thread: Has anyone tried to make thier system voice controlled?

I had that same idea a couple of days ago. I was thinking you could mount a small mic in the sun visor so you could pull it down to talk and it would be rite in front of your face. If there was a way to make it where the mic input was only picked up by the voice recognition program and not the rest of the computer then there wouldn't be any feedback. Then you could set the input level on the mic to be very low so it would only pick up your voice because it would be rite in front of your face. Or you could mute the radio, say the command, then unmute. If anyone has done this I would love to hear about it.

TokaTola

Hmmm

The voice activation software that I have claims that it will run on a 133, with 32 mb ram. The system in my car will probably be at least 166 mhz. It should be more than enough to run it, especially if I "Stop" winamp before I say anything into the mic. You have to train it with your voice, so maybe Fosgate is thinking of much more complicated program...???? It only recognizes from templates that you create, it doesn't try to understand language or anything...???

anyway...

As far as slowing my system down, I can run Homeworld, with all the eye candy, and the resolution pumped up all the way up, and still use the voice recognition softwear for all of the keyboard shortcuts...without any slowdown.

I actually recommend that anyone who plays computer games to look into the softwear.
www.gamecommander.net/

I understand that it intially got a bad review in many magazines, but its bugs are fixed. It works good, but not perfectly though. Damn good enough for loading playlists in a car though, and for a game like Homeworld...it adds TONS to the immersion...

well this board isn't about games, so I'll quit...but it seems like this softwear is just waiting to be taken advantage of in someones MP3Car!

Saying the name of some playlist once, maybe twice if you mumble seems to me, to be a helluva lot easier than fumbling with a trackball and a pin sized pointer on a 5 inch screen.

I already have the softwear, and the mic for my main rig. This summer when I try and wire my car up I will deffinetly give it a try.

P.S. Toka, the visor was exactly where I thought of placing the mic as well...heh, great minds think alike I guess.

I just tryed it w/ VoiceAssist, a program that tryes to detect comands, and recignieses them, and it failed miserably, but I hear that MagicSpell works, but Ive never tried that.


[This message has been edited by Yoshi (edited 03-19-2000).]

Well, after some fiddling i got it to work!
YEA! One problem it only dose Stop, Play, last track, next track and +10 Seconds,
SO FAR. I'll keep working, and keep you posted

Gamecommander does anything that you can do with a keyboard. So to Load a playlist I simply say "open 'name of playlist'" the software goes through and sends a whole string of keyboard commands...(Ctrl O)(tab)(tab)(tab)(tab)(tab) and then what ever the appropriate combination of arrow keys and (enter) to load the said playlist.

I can scroll through the playlist by saying "forward (any number) songs" or "back (any number) songs"

In theory I could have a voice command for every song, but that may be pushing the program a little too far.

Flebelis, have you done this in your car yet? Do you have to wear a headset to get this to work?

I was thinking the same thing spud, I think that may be the only way to do it. It would have been much cooler to just "talk" and change the playlist or whatever ... (heh I can see the look on my friends faces now) ... It would require muting winamp and flipping a switch for the mic. Still cooler than fumbling with a keyboard and trackball though...

The fact that, in my house at least I can put winamp's volume all the way up and still get almost no feedback (if its a couple of feet away from the speakers )is tantalizing... Perhaps a really expensive mic would cut some of the feedback out? Maybe there is a device that I could plug into the mic, that would cut out everything that doesn't reach a certain decible level? I guess there is really no way to know unless someone has tried it...

MJohnson, no it isn't in my car yet. I don't have anything set up in my car yet :-( I'm waiting untill I get some free time, this summer. It wont require a headset, but may require some finger jive ...(muting winamp and flicking a switch for the mic)