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speech recognition
Hi everyone. I'm starting a thread for Mac speech recognition because I'm planning on installing a Mac Mini in my car and I want to be able to control *almost* everything by voice.
It's been awhile since I've used a Mac but the Mini, IMO, is the most attractive vessel for a carpc out there. As such, I've been reading up on Mac OS X's Speech. While it's great that you can do alot of stuff with the Applescript + Speech combination, you cannot, to the best of my knowledge obtained from what little I have gelamed from these forums and elsewhere on the web, for instance, in iTunes, say "search 'Greenday', play" and iTunes would search for all songs with "Greenday" in the tags and play them. And spoken commands such as "find corner of Shaw Ave. and Willow" in Route 66 are impossible for Applescript to carry out.
I did come across a program called iListen, by MacSpeech, which claims to be able to, in addition to almost everything Mac OS X's Speech can do, convey spoken words into text in any field of any program. Well if this is true then I can use this in the search field of iTunes. Great!, if it's true. I have have not used Route 66 however I assume there's a similar field in which you type addresses.
Anyway, I just wanted to know about what other people have done in this matter. What solutions have you guys come up with? Is anyone out there a veteran of iListen? How usefuld would iListen be for what I'm proposing? Am I wrong about Applescript and what it's capable of? I hope I'm not the only one with these concerns. Good luck to everyone with their projects!
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