Re: Speech & HA

["Raymond Kelly" <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Oh yes it is. Its called tecnological advance. The technology does
exist it just hasn't been put together properly for a HA environment.
The types of products that are currently on the market are low =A3100's
and that price level will never address the current issues that need
to be addressed - namely:

1) Speech Lexicons need to be developed correctly - these deal with
accents=
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2) The speech engines themselves then have to be tuned to deal with
the HA environment. Currently they contain lots of baggage - for which
the main effect is to add delay!!
3) The speech engines should then be trained for the specific
voice(s). For example it will only respond to the 'trained' voices in
the family.

When the above issues are packaged - there is a chance, but then
there's the issues with microphones and background noise. I'm going
the home grown route with command lookup via a database. I'm using the
Microsoft Speech SDK 5.1.
Accent is not a problem as I'm from down south, but for a north
yorkshire then some heavy Lexicon routines have to be built.

The answer to when this is packaged correctly is when the likes of
Crestron and AMX come out with a system.

On 20/02/06, Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> > On Behalf Of Raymond Kelly
> > Sent: 20 February 2006 09:19
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Speech & HA
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> > Not using yet but am signing up to a definate to do.
> > My inspiration is the James Lipsit info:
> > http://james.lipsit.com/whole.htm
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> > The problem will always be the choice and placement of the
> > mics and eliminating background noise. The speech engines now
> > are up there and its your own choice. I'll roll my own using
> > the Microsoft Speech Engines, but really there does not seem
> > to be an 'off the shelf'
> > product as yet that I have found to be 'programmable' ie
> > build and create your own customized commands.
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> > When I finally do it ~ year away I'll publish details.
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> > I truely believe that this is the future of HA control
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> I truly believe that voice control *IS NOT* the future of HA
control...
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> Voice control is a great party-piece to show your mates after coming
back
> from the pub but for day-to-day use (and I have experience of a system
th=
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> *DID* work reliably with good ceiling mounted mics and properly set up
> limiters and gates etc.) and although the recognition was fine the act
of
> walking into a room and saying "Lounge Lights On" and then
waiting a seco=
nd
> for the lights to come on annoyed the cr*p out of me.
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> (Give me a PIR, a light level sensor and a bit of logic any day.)
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> Don't even get me started on "TV On, Watch Sky, Channel 42,
Volume Down,
> Volume Down, Volume Down, Volume Down, Volume Down, Volume Down
> (repeats)"...
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> (Just give me a well set up Pronto and I'm happy there.)
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> Phil
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