New Application xpl_voice

[Tony Tofts]

Hi all,

Have just published a new application in the vb6 section of my site.

This uses the MS SAPI 5.1 engine to provide voice recognition to an xpl
system

It uses a new schema voice.basic

XPL-TRIG Structure
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VOICE.BASIC
{
COMMAND=<word/phrase spoken>
[ZONE=<zone>]
}

XPL-CMND Structure
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VOICE.BASIC
{
COMMAND=ACTIVATE/SUSPEND/LEXICON
[FILENAME=<filename of alternative lexicon>
}

Config items are
ZONE=<zone>
CONFIRM=<Y or N> defines if recognised command should be spoken back
ACTIVATE=<word/phrase> optionally specifies a command to activate
listening
SUSPEND=<word/phrase> optionally specifies a command to resume
listening

The words/phrases are stored in an xml file

Making use of lexicon/filename name/value pair it is possible to construct
a
menu structure, rather than storing lots of occasionally used words/phrases
in the default commands.xml file

I intend to use this, initially, to provide voice control of
tv/cable/light/mp3 player in bedroom.
I have used the code to allow selection of artist/album/tracks by name, in
an automatically generated xml file, with excellent success while working
on
my (currently on hold) carputer project.

It also works ok on the diskless win98 node :-)

Regards
Tony