Hi,
I am constructing a speech controlled Lynx robot arm. While it is far from complete, I’m quite happy with progress so far so I put up this video:
abm.wso.net/redirect/robot.html
Any comments or questions are welcome.
Joe
WoW! That’s nice! It works well, the systems of voice recognition that I have played with seem never to understand my voice at the first try, even if I articulated as much as I could.
Hi Joe! I get calls for this sort of thing almost weekly. I would be happy to host any information, or website, or well anything that could be used to help wheelchair bound people have some more freedom. Up till now I had no one that I could refer them to. Are you interested? Nice work!
I’m also interested in projects such as this, even though I personally do not need this, at least not yet. However, I am very interested in working on stuff that helps disabled folks have better and easier lives.
One of my own projects is a wheelchair computer and lighting controller. I’ve pretty much picked out some workable components already, but that is subject to change if I find better and more useful things. I’ve nearly been hit by motorists several times (and at just a few diffrent intersections) because they aren’t paying attention - even with two flags on my chair. I will use very bright LEDs where appropriate to make a wheelchair easier to see at night, as well as very loud noise makers when appropriate.
8-Dale
Using something like below, possibly the computer could read back the command for correct verification. For a demo, copy the below code, paste in notepad, save on the desktop as speak.bat, then double click the speak.bat file to run.
@echo off
echo Set MyVoice = CreateObject("Sapi.SpVoice") >speak.vbs
echo Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") >>speak.vbs
echo Set f = fso.OpenTextFile(WScript.Arguments.Item(0),1,true) >>speak.vbs
echo Do While f.AtEndOfStream ^<^> True >>speak.vbs
echo MyVoice.Speak f.ReadLine >>speak.vbs
echo Loop >>speak.vbs
echo f.close >>speak.vbs
echo I now have control of your computer! >speak.txt
echo Resistance is futile! >>speak.txt
echo Ha, ha, ha! >>speak.txt
speak.vbs speak.txtThanks, everybody, for the comments. I will be replying to them all in a couple of days. (I need to handle some unavoidable tasks first).
Regards,
Joe
Hi Jim,
Sorry about the delay in responding. Actually I had relatives visiting from out of town. It was great.
I will be happy to share any information that would be useful. (Please keep in mind that the project is in a fairly incomplete state. However, as I say, I will be happy to share any information about what I’ve done so far and as the project develops further. Also, please keep in mind that I am simultaneously working on a couple of other projects, one of which, a speech controlled wheelchair, has a higher priority for me:
abm.wso.net/redirect/wheelchair.html
To get started, would it work for you to serve as an intermediary between me and the people who call you asking about this kind of project? That is, initially anyway, you would let me know what kind of things it would be helpful for me to produce (for example, technical specs, project overviews, whatever) and I would get them to you. As far as technical tools are concerned, I have the facilities and knowledge for some initial development of movies, streaming video etc. If and when things get sophisticated there might be more things to be done than I could handle by myself. We could play that by ear. I have my own web site that can serve for initial hosting of our stuff.
So, let me know what to think. You have my personal e-mail address. It might be a good idea for us to continue this discussion off the forum, no?
Regards,
Joe
Hi Sam,
Couple of things:
- my speech recognition system consists of Dragon NaturallySpeaking preferred with a NatLink/Vocola front-end processing the commands.
speechwiki.org/NL/HomePage.htmlThis is somewhat overkill for the application, but it does provide an enormous degree of control and tweaking. - What you don’t see in the video are the mistakes (user error, such as forgetting to turn on the power) and the speech misrecognitions, which were removed. (Windows moviemaker).
Though, even having said that, the overall recognition is very good.
Regards,
Joe
Hi Dale (linuxguy) ,
Sounds like we have a lot of interests in common. I’m also working on a speech controlled wheelchair
abm.wso.net/redirect/wheelchair.html Also, I’m trying to put my entire house under speech control using a mixture of X 10, infrared and wireless.
We should talk. A suggestion:
I’ve read about public key encryption but have never used it. I’d like to go off and see if I can figure out a way to have you securely transmit your personal e-mail address to me. If I understand it correctly, I would broadcast a public key which you will use to encode your personal e-mail address embedded within a message that you post on the forum and because I have the private key I’m the only one that can decipher your address. Does this sound right?
Regards,
Joe
Hi Zoomcat,
Thanks very much for the suggestion. I had no idea that you could do this with the software in the native Windows X. P. environment.
Regards,
Joe
hi
I am using homeseer software to run my x-10 stuff…was thinking it could also run a bot with web access asnd voice control…
any things like this on your end???
would like to get more info on maybe running a x-10 ninja setup on a bot…decode the signals and stuff!!
tkx
