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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Android phone

« on: July 18, 2011, 07:34:19 PM »

In my opinion using smart remote applications like the xbmc remote for android or xbmc commander (ipad) are the future. They are actually the reason why I started with an htpc and got rid of my mediaplayer. This is one reason (the price is another) why I would rather not buy the Amulet remote.

In one of the videos I saw jitterjames using an iphone with some program that records to wav-files and then uploads this to the pc. Does anyone know an android alternative, I can't seem to find one.
Even better would be if the android phone could act like a "virtual microphone", e.g. there could be some client-server model where the phone sends audio to the pc and the pc has a driver running that makes application think it's just an ordinary microphone. Not going to happen soon I'm afraid...

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / smart playlists

« on: July 17, 2011, 06:49:46 PM »

Hi

i've been playing around with voxcommando this weekend and it's a very fun and impressive tool (and Microsoft's engine I guess). For now I used a plantronics headset and it works quite well, even with loud music playing. I also tried the microphone that came with my Marantz receiver. It does work in silence. It sucks with noise, which is not too strange because it probably is an omnidirectional microphone. So I guess it's the worst possible microphone for an application like this :-)

anyway, I have a question. When I say "play hits by Lucie Silvas" I get an empty window.
The XBMC log tells me this:

17:47:23 T:4784 M:575262720   ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting C:\Program Files\Vox 1\VoxSmart.xsp
17:47:23 T:4784 M:575262720   ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(C:\Program Files\Vox 1\VoxSmart.xsp) failed
17:47:27 T:4784 M:571064320   ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting C:\Program Files\Vox 1\VoxSmart.xsp
17:47:27 T:4784 M:571064320   ERROR: CGUIMediaWindow::GetDirectory(C:\Program Files\Vox 1\VoxSmart.xsp) failed

I checked and the file VoxSmart.xsp does exist in the Vox-dir, it contains

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<smartplaylist type="songs">
    <name>Artist Hits</name>
    <match>all</match>
    <rule field="artist" operator="contains">Lucie Silvas</rule>
    <rule field="rating" operator="greaterthan">3</rule>
</smartplaylist>

I also rated two of her songs above 3. Can anyone explain what is going wrong?