Does anyone know if there is something that will let me control my robot with speech instead of a remote control/programming
Help would be greatly appreciated.
yes there is the VR stamp. I dont remember the link but you can google VR stamp and find it.
The VR Stamp from Sensory is an excellent speech recognition system offering both speaker dependent template based recognition and speaker independent allephone (sp?) based recognition. It can also do waveform playback and synthesize music and dtmf tones. Digikey sells both the vr stamp and the ev/demo kit for it. Not sure if you need the kit for the software or not, some of it used to be available by download or just requesting the CD with a form.
Not sure about this nick, think ya do have to program the VR stamp anyhow 
I’ve been wanting to play with these myself, but I’m holding off until I can get my Scout playing nicely with C on the Atom.
You will need some software for the VR Stamp. There’s software bundled that comes with development kits “QuickSynthesis4” and “FluentChip”, variously for collecting training data and compiling libraries. You also need a compiler.
Mikro Electronika also sells a dev kit, also including their C compiler for the VR Stamp.
There’s a tutorial micro-examples.com/public/microex-navig/doc/088-vrstamp-voice-controlled-led-light-show.html that might give you some idea of what to expect with it, and it gives sample code for controlling LEDs via voice command.
Looking at their website, I dont see how to interface with it. It’s going to be a challenge getting it to work with a BAP, atom, or any common MCU for that matter, without a tutorial of how to interface with a 24/28 pin MCU.
I think that it would probably need a bit banged serial or maybe I2C slave interface.
I so want to add one of these to W.A.L.T.E.R.! 
Also a speech output module to allow him to talk back.
8-Dale
It’s just a serial interface Mike. There are library routines for both character and packet based communications. It IS bit banged though so using a handshake line is almost mandatory.
Robots taklking back too! 
Oh ok, so I guess you take wire “A” and connect it to connector “B” and wala! it works! 
Yeah, a lot like the SJ. 
I have used a VR stamp in a model Voice Recognition Dalek, and it works increadibly well. To see it in action goto Youtube and type “voice recognition Dalek”
Toymaker
OK
So I’ve been tooling around the internet looking for different types of speech control and I spotted this little thing:
imagesco.com/kits/speech-recognition-kit.html
this little kit can recognize upto 40 words apparently but to make the recognized words control something I am planning to use this interface kit
imagesco.com/speech/speech-recognition-interface.html
The one I am planning to use is the one with the electrical relays
If anyone here has used this or something like this I would like to know if this would be a good thing to use because it takes less programming than a VR stamp and seems to be easier to use.
thanks for the feedback so far
Nick
Hey Nick, that unit looks good. Im not sure how this is going to tie in with your project, perhaps somemore ideas of what your planning on doing with this will help us decide if this is appropriate for your applications. Im sure your ready to start buying stuff for your project soon, I just ordered most of my parts tuesday (bought a little extra too now that I realize I cant use some of the components). Anyways more feedback would help us!
Joe,
Hey I am planning to use this little unit to hopefully make a 6WD rover be controlled by it. This will hopefully work well because if I do plan to use this it will basically completely remove the need of motor controllers from my project.
After I test the robot If I have time before BASEF I will transplant this setup into an electric wheelchair and hopefully have a voice controlled wheelchair.
As for the robot I already have the chassis built and motors mounted but I still need to purchase 2 more motors to make it 6WD.
If you want I could send you some pics over msn but I cant post them because I dont know how.
Regards
NICK WEAVER
thats sounds great. To post pictures, use photobucket to upload them onto the internet, than copy the link (the one for forums) and past it in your message here. add and around the link if it dosent already have it.