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

« on: November 10, 2011, 11:51:35 AM »

Hi

The android version already exists for some time, have a look at my earlier posts in this thread 
http://voxcommando.com/forum/index.php?topic=563.msg3946#msg3946

I tried it and it wasn't too stable.... Haven't experimented lately though.

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

« on: July 26, 2011, 08:31:53 PM »

I've tried to correct the stream from pocket audio using a vritual cable but it didn't help. Apart from that I tried feeding the audio of an ip-cam stream from my android phone into Voxcommando but that also caused crashes! Maybe the speech engine is a bit picky on the inputformats. Then I saved the stream to a Wav-file but the commands were not recognized. Besides, voxcommando keeps showing "wav file..." in the command text textbox. I just tried again and suddenly the wav-file was processed. But on many ocasions it als crashes voxcommando.
My voice sounds stupid but I can PM you the wav-file

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Feature Requests / Re: send email using SMTP

« on: July 21, 2011, 07:10:34 PM »

cool that you have time to add more features.
I was wondering what vision you have for the future of VC. I was experimenting with getting my squeezeboxes to play something I tell it to. One option I tried was having VC control Mediamonkey. There is a script for mediamonkey that makes squeezebox play the same song Mediamonkey is playing. I didn't get this to work but then I found out that Eventghost has a squeezebox plugin (haven't tried it yet). At the end of the day eventghost has a lot more plugins than voxcomando. When do you think VC should support something natively? You might get a lot of overlap between both?

Some other thing. VC has the option to watch a directory for wav-files. While experimenting with possibilities to use my android-phone as a mic I stumbled upon some IP-cam program. That program streams to whatever client you want. E.g. using url http://192.168.1.29:8080/audio.wav you can hear the speaker. It's actually 44khz 16 bit PCM. Would it be possible to configure a url for streaming audio?

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

« on: July 19, 2011, 07:53:47 PM »

I think I'm starting to get your point. Found your posts on their forum. I've got the exact same problem: crashes when starting to use the speech engine.
They haven't fixed it since

Maybe piping the microphone through a virtual cable helps, but haven't gotten the time to experiment enough.

ps. I saw your cool video featuring google translate. Do you have example-xml's showing how you've done this?
ps2. just bought a lifetime license. I'm not sure I will start using it on a day to day basis but I find it a lot of fun to play for now. And you can work another 35 hours on it ;-)

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

« on: July 19, 2011, 05:41:48 PM »

hi

senstic also offers pocket audio for android so that's good news. I paid the 1,35 euro and am trying to get it to work now.
why do you think senstic sucks?

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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?