Voice control (was Re: PIR + CCTV + Voice Control)

["Patrick Lidstone <patrick@xxxxxxx>" <patrick@xxxxxxx>]

> I am looking to work towards voice control. This is much more of a
gadget
> thing at the moment than serious but this obviously requires audio
inout
> from every area of the house to make it useful. 

I've been playing with speech recognition and have the following 
experimental setup:

- iPAQ with wireless LAN card, voice-over-IP software and WAP/XML 
browser
- Connected to an external speech recognition server

Items to be controlled are embedded as plain text links in the XML 
(e.g. <Recognise: Sitting room lights on/>)

The speech recognition engine is fantastically accurate (I've /never/ 
had a mis-match), and, best of all, requires no training. Just pick 
up the iPAQ, and tell it what you want to do, and it does it. You can 
also use the setup to navigate web pages and to interface to/control 
any xAP capable device.

If you're looking for something a little simpler, then Firebox have a 
voice activated infra-red remote control. This is speaker-dependent, 
but works surprisingly well (apart from its habit of issuing random 
commands when I'm talking on the phone :-)

Patrick

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