Voice controlled room

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I have an idea about a voice controlled room.

I would use an atmega8-16PU to switch lamp and other items on

I have an old pc laying in my room with windows 2000.

It has a serial port, a parallel port and 2 usb ports.

I want it to interface with my atmega8, but I am wondering how you use voice control with it.

I could also use an arduino, but for now I am thinking it al out.

This is an idea for home automation.

 

So does anybody now how I would program my pc for voice control.

And what circuit I would use for an interface with my atmega8 or arduino

 

Thanks,

 

 

Danny Temmerman

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UPDATE

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I now installed this program from http://www.e-speaking.com/.

With this program you can execute programs and document and all.

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Yuo would need a microphone
Yuo would need a microphone that could pick up sounds from across the room. Also you need an app on the PC that can take sounds from the microphone and somehow convert it to text or do voice recognition to determine what was said. This app likely already exists. Then you need it to take what ws said and relay it to the atmega via serial port. Not an easy project…

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how do i relay it

The voice recognision part I already know.

But how do I relay it to my atmega8 with the voice recognision software?

Let each voice command run a small program or something?

Programming isn’t my strongest part.

 

What do you think?

 

Thanks

 

 

Danny Temmerman

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The easiest option that

The easiest option that comes to mind is to have the computer program send the AtMega8 a little serial command every time the PC recognises a speech command.

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How do you do that?

How do you send a serial progam to the atmega8?

I haven’t done that yet, because I always program my atmega8 with my parallel port on my other computer.

 

 

Thanks

Danny Temmerman

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Depending on your available

Depending on your available comm ports and programming skills you could use the parallel port, USB port, or really any data port on the PC. You could use parallel communication instead of serial, but that does eat up quite a few more pins on the AtMega versus only 2 for serial.
Program the voice recognition software to send data out from the chosen port, something along the lines of [START CODE][COMMAND][END CODE], where the start and end codes are just ‘passwords’ to let the AtMega know when data is incoming/finished. The command string will contain a unique identifier that tells the AtMega what voice command was just recognised by the PC program.
Check out the AtMega documentation for serial comms implementation; how you write the PC side code will depend on what tools you have available.

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Check this out. It gives you
Check this out. It gives you a brief insight on how to send serial data. https://www.robotshop.com/letsmakerobots/node/6206

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Hook them together with bluetooth or XBees
both are awesome trans/recievers. the arduino has shields for both of them. then if the computer hears you say lights, it transmits a #1 to the MCU. if it hears coffee, it transmits a 2. and so on and so forth. the MCU would then tell lights/coffee machine/etc. to turn on.

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how exactely?
With which program do you sent serial data to the atmega8 and how do you implent this in the voice control software?

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Just about any program
Just about any program should have access to the comm ports, are you programming the voice control software yourself? If you’re using pre-built voice software that changes a lot, you need to find a way to get some sort of output from that first.

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I use

I use voice recognicion software from e-speaking.com.

 

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I just read your inquiry

I just read your inquiry regarding interfacing with an ATmega8 using the Parrellel port. If that has anything to do with this project, which I assume it does, let me make a suggestion. This Computerized Room Project uses solely the parallel port to manipulate real world objects. It seems a bit outdated, but yet still functional. Maybe you can use information there to help develop a simpler system.

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parallel port control

I found this program to control the outputs of my parallel port: http://www.geocities.com/micgm/circuit/circuit.html

but does anyone knows how i could control it with this voice control sofware: http://www.e-speaking.com/

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Good example

This is he thing I want to create :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49LlIiAtOUo&feature=channel_page

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Voice conrol

Do you know any software ( as i have no idea about programming ) that can translate voice commands to outputs on my parallel port?

If not, could you explain how to program, what to pragram and especially where to pram these thing?

Please, I really need this for my robot. I made my dad get me a wireless mic and output system ( expensive ) so that i can can make my robot ( controlled through parallel port ) work by voice control! If I don’t get it, he’ll kill me.

thanks a lot!