From: Phillip Gawlowski Date: 2010-11-03T06:18:29+09:00 Subject: Re: Speech Recognition On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Jonathan Bale wrote: > Where would I start if I wanted to create some small programs/scripts > that could recognize a few verbal commands from me and respond > accordingly? I'm not thinking of anything real sophisticated here, just > a few commands, and it only has to recognize one voice (mine). By buying Dragon Naturally Speaking and scripting that (via COM, if you are on Windows, but I guess any other IPC that DNS understands should work). Alternatively: any voice recognition system that ships as part with your OS of choice (Windows Vista has one, Linux should have something available, somewhere, but I don't know about Mac OS X). Yes, it's overkill, but so is using voice activated scripts / tools. ;) On a more serious note: voice recognition is *hard*. If you ever encountered a speech recognition system when using a hotline, I'm sure you are fully aware of how difficult it is to pull off. And those folk can buy all the CPU power and software they need. TBH, without a degree in Linguistics and comp. sci. I wouldn't even /try/ to roll my own solution for this. -- Phillip Gawlowski Though the folk I have met, (Ah, how soon!) they forget When I've moved on to some other place, There may be one or two, When I've played and passed through, Who'll remember my song or my face.