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Tutorials / Installing vox commando and some basics

« on: August 05, 2012, 06:29:16 PM »

Hi guys,

Nothing hugely new here, but with my limited skill I didn't feel I had much to give back to the community outside of some simple guides for the less technical amongst us.

If nothing else I'm hoping it will just serve to bring some interest from around my part of the country...

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2KxbKdwZo

Cheers

-P

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Feature Requests / Siri like functionality i.e. ask your computer any question

« on: April 09, 2012, 07:29:35 AM »

Hi guys,

This is pretty much the only thing missing for me now.  I am driving my friends insane with either jealousy or boredom depending how techy they are because I can't stop telling them how cool it is to be able to switch my heater on by saying "it's too cold in here", or switch my lights and projector off by saying "shut it all down", or get the PC to play a waterfall sound when I say "help me to sleep", I am constantly trying to think of new commands and despite my limited technical ability this has become one of my favorite hobbies.

Anyway, what I want is to be able to say "Who was the first president of the united states?" or "What do gerbils like to eat?" etc and get a short answer.

Because I am generally the least technical person in this forum I have gotten nowhere  I tried looking at the scrape functionality and using wikipedia as the source but I think it is just too much for my tiny little brain as I can't get her to return a single word.

Have any of you guys already built some XML that will do this that I might be able to download?

Loving your work as always.

-P

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Step forward and Step back jumps 30 seconds, want to edit that value

« on: March 12, 2012, 04:36:55 PM »

Hey alll,

I spent a good day researching XBMC forums for how to do this, but got nowhere so thought maybe you awesome people could help.

Using fast forward and rewind is fairly clumsy so I decided I would use step forward and step back instead, but to my amazement the people who made XBMC made the jump default to 30 seconds!  My missus says, "I missed that, go back" and I use the step backward button/voice command and it bounces me 30 seconds previous when I only needed about 5 seconds.

My research led me to create an advanced.xml file in my "User data" folder and I tried every instruction on every forum and it just does nothing as if I'd never created the file.  After a while I began to consider whether it was the skin I was using as some forums suggested altering another XML file called videoOSDsettings.xml under C:\Program Files (x86)\XBMC\addons\skin.confluence\720p

There is no similar folder for the 'Night' skin, and perhaps that is totally irrelevant considering I know nothing about coding and can only follow explicit instructions and make educated guesses and perhaps I am miss-understanding what the skin.confluence folder contains.

And so I fall to you.  Is there anything you guys can suggest, i.e. do you know in what way I am being an idiot, more to the point is there a workaround in Voxcommando to shorten the jump to just 5 seconds.

Below is the most recent attempt at the advancedsettings.xml file...

<advancedsettings>
  <video>
  <timeseekforward>5</timeseekforward>  <!-- Time to seek forward in sec - short seek.  Defaults to 30. -->
  <timeseekbackward>-5</timeseekbackward>  <!-- Time to seek backward in sec - short seek.  Defaults to -30. -->
  <timeseekforwardbig>600</timeseekforwardbig>  <!-- Time seek forward in sec- long seek. Def 600 (10 min). -->
  <timeseekbackwardbig>-600</timeseekbackwardbig>  <!-- Time seek back in sec - long seek. Def to -600 (10 min). -->
  </video>
</advancedsettings>


Loving your work as always

-P

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VoxCommando Basics and Core Features / Using Vox commando to control Windows

« on: March 03, 2012, 02:54:19 PM »

Hi all,

First of all, this software is literally mind blowingly brilliant, when I tell my friends what I have achieved so far they don't believe me.  Second of all I am utterly useless when it comes to any kind of Dev style work or understanding anything more technical than programming simple commands, my Voxcommando tree would probably have you all laughing as the level of competency here seems fairly incredible and I have probably taken the long way around most of my macros.

I am using Vox commando 0.942 and Eventghost in conjunction on Windows7 64bit

I would like to be able to say a command such as "behave like Windows Speech recognition" to be able to launch programs browse the web, type text etc etc.  I've browsed around for plugins, and to try to find other people trying to achieve this but I have been unable to find anything.

I have tried to use Eventghost to launch Windows Speech Recognition and then tell Voxcommando to stop listening, but the shortcut I have on my desktop for Windows Speech Recognition does not play nice with Eventghost.  Eventghost says something to the effect of "Not a valid executable".  I'm in the process of trying to find the file path for Windows Speech recognition so that I can try to use Voxcommando's "Launch" command.

I'd prefer to control everything natively in Voxcommando if possible to avoid using Windows Speech recognition altogether but I imagine sitting down and programming every macro for every program on my PC would take an eternity.

So I suppose my question is, how are the rest of you doing it?  If someone has achieved it, or has created endless commands for controlling their PC then could you maybe zip up your vox commando and send it me so that I can strip out you hard work?

I'm sure that most of the above seems fairly imbecillic to anyone that has been using this software for a while, hopefully not.

-P