Speech control of the system???

RobertDavid · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject: Speech control of the system???

Is there any soft to monitor microphone and recognise learnt orders?? just something tiny, for few dozen commands (like terminal, opera, mail, scroll-down, scroll-up, back, forward, etc),,

I think it should handle running commands and maybe some mapping to mouse (for the forward,scroll actions)

I dont want dictate some text etc, and it must not have a its own dictionary(just tutorial how to create own commands)

I have read here in the forums abut sphinx2 and sphinxtrain, I just tryed that but dont know how to make it work and didnt find any realy useful how-to, also I dont know if its a think I want...

I use fvwm so its easy for me to implant some shortcuts for its usage etc...

(It would be nice if there will be some module for fvwm to recognise speech commands:) )
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RobertDavid · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject:

So I just tryed cvoicecontrol because it seams a good app for me,
but it didnt recognise my soundcard:(

I have few years old notebook, with some ESS soundcard (I have never try to record anything on it)

when I try microphone_config it writes it should not recognise my soundcard and I need to have 16-bit recording ability...

So I emerged wavrec to try record sth. but it didnt work because I dont have /dev/dsp and dont know where is microphone assigned (I use latest alsa kernel drivers and have mixer and sequencer enabled in my kernel config)
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01mf02 · Posted: Thu Apr 20, 2006 7:55 pm Post subject:

I think your sound configuration is a bit broken if you don't have /dev/dsp. Go for the ALSA manual in the Gentoo Documentation section!

RobertDavid · Posted: Fri Apr 21, 2006 6:00 pm Post subject:

maybe I have found that: I didnt have OSS PCM (digital audio) API checked (I havent used that until now)

When it will be compiled and ready I will try that, thanks:)
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RobertDavid · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 7:38 am Post subject:

Now I can run microphone_config, set mixer as /dev/mixer, audio device as /dev/dsp and than try to adjust mic level but it doesnt work or it seems to freeze (cpu usage goes 100% and i couldnt stop that even with ctrl-c so I have to kill the terminal)

I tryed to speek loudly but the mic level is still on 99%, if I increase wolume of master the computer became "sound loop" so I know the microphone work...
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01mf02 · Posted: Sat Apr 22, 2006 10:02 am Post subject:

Usually, if you configure your system correctly, you should hear from the speakers immediately what you speak into the microphone.

If you just want to try your microphone, I wouldn't suggest cvoicecontrol for this task, but Audacity.

shiosai · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 May 2005 Posts: 143

Im using Sphinx 3.6. It works very good but isnt something for beginners. But if you are able to program with C and have some time to learn a little bit about speechrecognition youd should have a look at it.
Cvoicecontrol is a little bit too out of date to work... try perlboxvoice (perlbox.org) instead.. its good to begin with (it uses sphinx 2)