Saturday, October 07, 2006

Research -Voice Recognition and Control

Speech Recognition controlling Flash

Thought that it was some speech recognition integrated with flash.Actually I am thinking to do it this way.. planning for a collaborative social way of interacting with a medium through voice and sound based inputs..
but this turned out to be how speech recognition can used in flash to invoke commands.Sad..


Voice control

This shows how a robot is controlled based on voice inputs.

Friday, October 06, 2006

Research & Thought Process -Voice recogntion

Voice Recognition Animal Interaction

I found this very interesting sound based interaction on YOUTUBE .It was one of my concepts, of gaming with voice based signals, here through speech recognition , different events are triggered and interactions happen.
Its interesting to watch and I think should be even more interesting to play with.

This is voice based inputs for a game.

What I am thinking is a simpler version where a user through sound inputs can trigger something, a simple game like Mario for example, where the basic action is to jump (if we keep the moving forward as constant)..

those single click games..

simple thing like to keep running to win the race..

I also have thought about a scenario where a group of people can play a racing game, the screen shows a corresponding car, and the speech recongnition system recongnizes each sound input and accordingly triggers the cars to move forward.. the louder you shout, or the more consistantly you shout, the more will be your speed.And hence a game can be played collaboratively.

God Help Their Neighbours!!

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Thought Process-Voice Recognition on my PC

I think this is also voice training has a big problem.That is one big problem with the existing voice recognition softwares that they have "user profiles" i.e. they "listen to" only the person who has trained them.. what others speek is taken as a garbage entry.

I have installed Microsoft speech recognition on my computer and I did train my computer to understand what I say for some 1.5 Hrs and then it could partly understand what I was saying.By the above statement I mean that I installed the speech recognition engine and voice trained it for microsoft word, so that I could dictate text to it.It is fascinating to see it work.But when I ask someone else to give a dictation what it types is garbage.

It also understands commands in the command mode.I can save and open and edit files.
I will have to think how to convert these text files into some other form in real time.I will have to script something I think...
Let's see.

Research- voice recognition in machines

Blendie: a voice controlled blender


Just watch this video, its amazing, it shows how with the change in the loudness of sound , the speed of the blender increases... its also very funny... and scary also , because this blender is supposed to have a mood of its own and it suddenly starts on its own sometimes!

Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Research - Windows did it again!

Speech recognition in Windows Vista

Found this interesting video of how Windows Vista recognizes speech inputs and executes commands.. though its kinda funny how he says "double click 'folder_name' " but its nice to see it work.I liked the way he marks the points in MSPAINT..

This speech recognition feature was first introduced with microsoft office XP, and now it is encapsulated with the operating system!

Monday, October 02, 2006

Thought Process-Action and Reaction

Thinking on the lines of how any interaction can be interesting and involving,firstly it should follow physics,Newton's third rule to be more precise,which says, "Every Action has an equal and opposite reaction "



Analysing some tasks in daily life:
Tossing a ball
Clicking a mouse button
Shouting
Playing an instrument
Talking on the phone
Bursting a cracker
Moulding a pot
Switching on a switch
Hitting a punching bag

each one of the above mentioned activities have the

basic "Action-Reaction" sequences

Now, these things can be more exciting if they have

a factor each of:
-fun
-entertainment
-game
-involvement
-inviting
-anticipation
-surprise
-engagement
-uncertainty
-"wow"
-magic
-unpredictability