Text-2-speech interaction

**supralightning** · 04-02-2004, 12:18 AM

Hey guys, i use Dragon naturally speaking, is there a way to make it really interactive easily. This is just me wanting to be totally geeky, For instance:

Me: Car, we have a new passenger.
Car: Oh, what is their name?
Me: John Doe
Car: Hello, John Doe, it is nice to meet you.
OR
Car: Welcome back John Doe, how have you been.

and possibly keep a log of people it has met (cause i know DNS has like a macro modething), and stuff like that idk ive always wanted something human like like that. HEHE call me crazy....
maybe if i learn the nitty gritty stuff on programming certain voice attributes (i have a few sources), ill work on a AI program...unless one exists of course

-EVOXTC

**antimatter** · 04-02-2004, 02:08 AM

Now your talking AI

**supralightning** · 04-02-2004, 02:11 AM

Yes i am, i thought i put that in the post guess not hehe, or no yes i did hehe

**Scorpnstail** · 04-02-2004, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by supralightning

Yes i am, i thought i put that in the post guess not hehe, or no yes i did hehe

I have seen some home automation projects that can work somewhat like you are talking. From what I have seen you still have to program in the variables , such as name and the text you want it to say. I have yet to see any intellegence with these functions though.

for example : You know Jill will be riding in your car tommorow and you want to do something to supprise her for her b-day that is coming up.
You would have to program in the strings of commands prior to her entering the car.

You : Hello Computer , I have Jill with us
< Computer already has that set to start a series of strings >
Computer: Hello Jill
Jill : uhh.. Hello
Computer: I hear it is your birthday , well happy birthday <plays b-day song>

as with the above example it is all on how you program it and there is 0% intellegence on the computers end.

Hope that helps somewhat,

Scorpnstail

**supralightning** · 04-02-2004, 04:30 PM

Yea, i figured thats how it'd have to be. Prolly not wrth my time tho.

**Jamez_Warner** · 04-05-2004, 06:07 AM

I use speak'n'play plugin to reliably ( gets it right 90% of time ) to control winamp in car - going to expand to GPS + software control soon
James

**-B-e-N-** · 04-05-2004, 06:43 AM

why not have the computer control the settingsas well. lets say you it joe is in the car then it askes u if you would like to open joe's settings sutch as play list maby air con and things like this.