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  1. 05-30-2001, 11:21 PM #1
    nipkick
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    Cool software to use when you have no display

    I know this may sound kind of cheesy, but I have written a script for mIRC that works quite well if you have a car mp3 player but no display. It also uses Microsoft Agent for text-to-speech, so you can have your player talk instead of display stuff. I made it so all of the different speech messages are configurable, so you can make your player do what you want. Check out the screenshots at http://www.mp3car.com/usersites/nipkick and if you're interested, please send me an email. Thanks.
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  2. 05-31-2001, 12:12 AM #2
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    Interesting, but why wouldnt you just spring for a character LCD? Oh, BTW, thats a good looking suitcase MP3 player. Is that the Samsonite MP3?
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    interesting concept, will it be possible to fire other programs/communicate with them through your program ?

    I've wanted to to do the speech thang with my program, unfortunately, i havent had the time to figure out how the microsoft speech sdk works yet.

    How do you trigger an "incoming message" ? or does it just sit in listen mode all the time

    If i remeber right the sdk mention sys req at about 133/166, but since that is what im running (150 on a semi fried motherboard) that doesnt leave alot to winamp

    Whats your experience of the demands voice recognition puts on your system ?
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  4. 06-04-2001, 01:25 PM #4
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    you can execute other programs with mirc, but in terms of communicating with them, they would have to support DDE or be COM+, or even have command line options to be run with. i just use mirc's internal /splay to play mp3s, so i don't even have to worry about winamp.

    mirc has internal ms agent support, so to make it talk you just use built-in commands. it's not very hard.

    in terms of voice recognition, my script doesn't use that yet. i'm not sure if i'm gonna bother with it, even though mirc supports it. the reason it's not very practical is that you have to specify the words that mirc will listen for. so if you wanted to search for something by saying it, it wouldn't work.
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  5. 06-04-2001, 03:31 PM #5
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    This is remotely similar to what I did. I custom wrote a VB app to run my player. It uses the MS Speech SDK for voice feedback, the Media Player objet to play MP3s and my own Access based playlist system.

    I chose to use voice over LCD for three simple reasons:
    1. Cheaper
    2. Don't have to take eyes off road
    3. No good space for LCD screen
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