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VoxCommando Basics and Core Features / Re: Audio Device Selection
« on: November 10, 2010, 01:36:18 PM »
Appreciate the quick response!
Skype on the 3G uses a lower quality codec as compared to running on an iPhone4 for example, however in testing it worked really well for me. I had it sitting on my low coffee table a foot or so in front of me and was able to execute commands whilst music was playing pretty loud. I was going to test with the iPhone4 tonight and see how it fared, but so far the 3G works well enough to be used on a daily basis. Incidentally I was doing artist lookups, finding movies and other multiple option commands without problem.
The VAC free version isn't time limited or hobbled in any serious way that I could see. The only limitation is that it sends a spoken 'trial' sound every twenty seconds or so... For the most part this didn't seem to confuse VoxCommando at all. I did end up purchasing the full version since I do anticipate using it for some other projects as well. I didn't notice any performance benefits or such with the full version over the free one though.
As to the spoken OSD information, yes, now that you mention it I can see the problem
Essentially I was just hoping to get some audio or visual feedback for a recognized command. When XBMC is running in fullscreen mode I don't see the OSD popups so I figured an audio one would do. I will take your suggestion of adding some custom TTS though, that way I can only include it for commands I care about. Thinking about it more I guess having the OSD actually display over the top of XBMC would be the ideal solution.
It's a shame the speech api can't use non-default audio devices
I'm going to play around some more with setting the VAC as default and using XBMC to output specifically to HDMI and see how well that works. It's a shame windows doesn't have something similar to Pulseaudio on Linux.
Again, thanks for the great app!
Skype on the 3G uses a lower quality codec as compared to running on an iPhone4 for example, however in testing it worked really well for me. I had it sitting on my low coffee table a foot or so in front of me and was able to execute commands whilst music was playing pretty loud. I was going to test with the iPhone4 tonight and see how it fared, but so far the 3G works well enough to be used on a daily basis. Incidentally I was doing artist lookups, finding movies and other multiple option commands without problem.
The VAC free version isn't time limited or hobbled in any serious way that I could see. The only limitation is that it sends a spoken 'trial' sound every twenty seconds or so... For the most part this didn't seem to confuse VoxCommando at all. I did end up purchasing the full version since I do anticipate using it for some other projects as well. I didn't notice any performance benefits or such with the full version over the free one though.
As to the spoken OSD information, yes, now that you mention it I can see the problem
Essentially I was just hoping to get some audio or visual feedback for a recognized command. When XBMC is running in fullscreen mode I don't see the OSD popups so I figured an audio one would do. I will take your suggestion of adding some custom TTS though, that way I can only include it for commands I care about. Thinking about it more I guess having the OSD actually display over the top of XBMC would be the ideal solution. It's a shame the speech api can't use non-default audio devices
I'm going to play around some more with setting the VAC as default and using XBMC to output specifically to HDMI and see how well that works. It's a shame windows doesn't have something similar to Pulseaudio on Linux.Again, thanks for the great app!