From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-07-02T20:37:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Question about streaming on Ruby


"Rob" <robson@magario.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:064801c34081$3c812000$a8c70b85@CPQ22906761423...
> I have a problem which I even don't know where to start.
> My professor asked me to build a system in Ruby which uses streaming in
> order to play voice.
> It is a system where the server will give responses to what the user
says.
> So, basically if the user says "hello", the system will reply saying
"Fine,
> and you?".
> At the moment I don't have to care about the voice recognition, I just
have
> to
> build something that can save a sound file in the server and something
where
> the user can
> press a button called "record my voice" and that as soon as the server
> finishes recording the
> user's voice, the server will play the response file.
>
> My question is: how to start doing this with Ruby?
> Can Ruby do this?
>
> I asked my friends at my lab, and one friend said I should better forget
> Ruby and use active-X.
> But my professor said I should try to develop it using Ruby.

Apart from the sound recognition stuff this sounds like an ordinary web
application.  You can have a look at eruby and I think there's an Apache
mod_ruby.

The difficult part - independent of programming language used - will be
the sound recording of the user's voice.

    robert