RE: Re: Homeseer and voice

["Andy Powell" <Andy@xxxxxxx>]

Actually the key was "Prof Heinz Wolff" - I remember the
"Great Egg Race" - Well and the fact that he was more
interested is systems that checked to see if you were ok lying on the sofa,
watching a movie - or just dead. Which,
all in all is a pretty good idea (the checking not the dead bit).

But as always your prose is quite elokw..eloqwe...ellokw... well
written..... me I can't speak or write properly.. not anymore,
I blame it on working in London.  - iss orite mate, a bii o dogin, di vin
duk in an we vin neva urt no wan.. ;-))

A.

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On 26/04/01 at 20:52 Keith Doxey wrote:

>I beg to differ Mr Powell,
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>The fact you remember it so clearly indicated what a well written,
highly
>informative, thought provoking synopsis it was.
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>Either that or I am sadder than you :-)
>
>Keith
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: andy.powell@xxxxxxx [mailto:andy.powell@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: 26 April 2001 14:56
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: Homeseer and voice
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>What worries me is that I clearly remember the post...I have no life
(as
>my wife often reminds me) ;-)
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>A.
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>Keith Doxey <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>
>26/04/2001 15:43
>Please respond to ukha_d
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>        To:     ukha_d <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>        cc:
>        Subject:        RE: [ukha_d] Re: Homeseer and voice
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>About a year ago I attended a lecture given by Prof Heinz Wolff and he
>mentioned that he got good results using a program called "Game
Commander"
>from http://www.gamecommander.com He
couldnt get it to recognise words like
>"Help" but it was very good at "Get Out Of The
Cockpit" which could be All
>Units OFF. "Phasers to full" could be All Lights ON :-))
>
>Keith
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Oliver Pell [mailto:odp@xxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:17
>To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Homeseer and voice
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>I've done quite a bit of experimentation with Homeseer and voice
>recognition
>and I'm not at all convinced you're going to get any results worth
writing
>home about after spending 50 :-(. Speakers really don't matter - if
>you're
>only using them for TTS anyway - but the quality of the microphone
does. I
>spent a couple of weeks trying a headset plugged into my computer but
(as
>expected) it was only any use if I was wearing the headset and the
sound
>quality was lousy. In the end I shelled out for an Audiotec Pro42 mic
from
>Stage Electrics and got a phantom power source from LetsAutomate -
voice
>recognition does work all around the room now. The sound volume is
really
>low - but obviously high enough for the computer to understand. I was
>getting 80-90% command recognition, I would say.
>
>My current plans are probably to get one of LetsAutomate's mixers so I
can
>connect more than one mic (and hopefully that'll boost the volume as
>well).
>
>Have you tried the voice recognition so far? Homeseer comes with the MS
>voice recognition engine which only seems to really work well (as far
as
>VR
>ever works well) with American accents. I would recommend getting a
hold
>of
>a commercial VR program, training it, and then using that engine - I'm
>using
>the Dragon NaturallySpeaking engine and the difference between it and
MS
>is
>immense. There is then the slight problem that other people can't
really
>use
>it without you putting in some fancy VBScript code to switch speakers
but
>this is a minor problem compared to the increase in recognition quality
>(for
>me, anyway).
>
>Hope some of this helps,
>
>Oliver.
>
>Message: 18
>   Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:00:42 +0100
>   From: "Gareth Cook/STA/Lotus" <gcook@xxxxxxx>
>Subject: HomeSeer and Voice
>
>ok - I've installed HomeSeer. I have a server in my loft, and I'd like
to
>use voice recognition and text to speech.
>
>So - where do I start ? Any recommendations for microphone and
speakers,
>and placement, and shielded cable types ?
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