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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Re: Remove speaker output from Mic input?

« on: November 11, 2010, 06:25:52 PM »

Is it possible to have VC check for a higher rate of reliability of the prefix-word than the rest of the sentence? That would less likely cause VC to pick up a command.

I was thinking about that. I've changed my key word to "Holly" after the ship's computer from Red Dwarf (because I'm a geek). I suspect it'll be picked up easier than xbmc but I'm just going to play around with some words and see what I get

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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Re: Remove speaker output from Mic input?

« on: November 11, 2010, 10:36:59 AM »

If you use prefix mode, be sure your prefix has at least two syllables.   Using a woman's name (e.g. Erika) as the prefix can work well, but may incur a very low W.A.F.

Cheers for that! I actually use "X B M C" as the keyword at the moment, but I don't know if that's a wise choice or not. Watching a couple of shows last night and it was picked up twice. I'm going to have a play around over the weekend with a few different keywords and see what works best for me.

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What is a good microphone for speech recognition? / Remove speaker output from Mic input?

« on: November 08, 2010, 12:38:57 PM »

I'm guessing it's not possible, or would take up for too much in the way of resource, but is there no way you can cancel out the audio output from the computer speakers, with the mic input?

For instance I use the PS3 Eye as my microphone, occasionally when watching a film (even in standby mode), what the characters say can sound enough like my key word to activate a command. Being the computer knows what audio it's outputting, would it not be possible to then take account of this on the mic input and remove it (or at least as best it can)?

I know it's beyond the scope of Vox Commando as a piece of software but I was curious if anyone knew if something like this has been/is being developed.

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: November 07, 2010, 05:03:11 AM »

Well, regarding signing up, your initial auto-email saying you'd check my account and then activate it came through my inbox, however the email with the link went to my spam box, very odd. This was with gmail.

Anyway, having a blast playing around with this. WHen using the smart playlists to start a film, I take it you need to update the xml each time you add a film/show? I was wondering if it's possible to generate this from a command line prompt, or something like that? So then I could add a voice command for "Update Movie List", so when using XBMC I could just say that and it'd update.

Also it still amazes me that I can sit back on my couch and say "Find Unwatched Episodes of Community" and up they pop.

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XBMC (Old board see 'KODI' above) / Re: XBMC for Dummies!

« on: November 06, 2010, 08:03:46 PM »

Been waiting patiently for my forum account to be created, thinking I'd been forgotten, then checked my spam folder and it had ended up in there, damn gmail!

Anyway, loving the possibilities of this and am going to sit down and have a play tomorrow. I'm using the xbmc microphone at the moment but am tempted to see if the setup microphone for my amp will work too.

Just thought I'd fire off an XBMC related question, maybe I'm being dumb. I'm running Dharma Beta 4 and scroll left/scroll right are going very wonky, no idea if it's just my setup. I'm pretty sure the send key command is working fine but the end result is that XBMC will sort of judder but not move (for example in tv shows it will try to move left then "bounce" back to what it was on before and repeatedly do this). Any ideas?

::edit:: Scratch all that, used the version attached to your first post and all seems to be working well, going to have a proper play around tomorrow. I'm sat about 10 foot away from the tv, the ps3 eye is ON the tv, my centre speaker below the tv and my two fronts below. It seems to pick up (90% of the time) my commands, despite the difference, it also makes out pause when something is playing. Overall pretty impressed with the mic on it! Though I'm going to have to shove a little bit of tape over the led