Vox Commando - Voice Commands

[Ize]

Well i've tried the new version and it seems to be alot more sensitive(i left the settings alone) and it picked up alot more false positives at 50% "no no no no no" the whole time O_o

So i guess this won't work so well heh... maybe with a narrowed down vocabulary for the recognition it will work better but im gonna wait till i've finished my new living room for that.

If that doesn't work i'll just buy a 20m usb extension and hide it under the parquet

[jitterjames]

I didn't change anything that should affect the sensitivity, and I have not noticed any difference from the previous version. I think that something in either your setup or perception must have changed. You should still be able to use a fairly large command set as long as your commands don't sound too similar. For example "fat 5" and "sat 5" would be difficult to distinguish. Or a better real world example would be. "all fans on" "hall fan on" which is one that I had to rethink!

If you are using "payload dictation" you could run into problems since this allows you to say almost anything" but if you use a unique phrase before it it shouldn't affect your other commands.

Sometimes when you install a new microphone it is worth creating a new speech profile (in windows speech setup) and doing a little training using whatever your new setup is, and from the typical distance. I have found that voice training is more about training it to work with your mic than training it to work with your voice. (just my opinion - but once I've trained it, it still works very well with a variety of other speakers, both male and female [excluding children and people with strong accents])

[Ize]

good idea.

i'll try this... hopefully my living room will be done by next week and then i'll retrain with a new profile and the (hopefully) final microphone position

i'll post another vid if and when i have it working

also: im still waiting for my usb-uirt shipment from the us ... damn ashcloud *shakes his fist*

[jitterjames]

I took a look at the Alaska skin, and it does appear to be missing the playlist functionality for video. I would suggest switching to another skin in order to do trouble shooting, and then just switch back to Alaska once you get it working.

[jitterjames]

Ize:

I think I might have figured out why only dexter is working for you. You have to get the name of the show exactly right.

you were searching for spartacus, but I believe the name of the show is actually "spartacus blood and sand" and if the knight rider you are watching is the new one, the title of the show is actually "Knight rider (2008).

I can' remember if you need to get the capitals right too...

I don't know if that's what is happening. You could try changing the macro to be a bit more flexible.

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operator="is">{eg.globals.searchstring}

on this line you could change "is" to "contains" and then "spartacus" would probably work since "spartacus blood and sand" contains the word "spartacus".

Let me know if this could be the problem.

j

[Ize]

and BAM.... james does it again

that solved it

[jitterjames]

Well i've tried the new version and it seems to be alot more sensitive(i left the settings alone) and it picked up alot more false positives at 50% "no no no no no" the whole time O_o

So i guess this won't work so well heh... maybe with a narrowed down vocabulary for the recognition it will work better but im gonna wait till i've finished my new living room for that.

If that doesn't work i'll just buy a 20m usb extension and hide it under the parquet

Make sure you test any usb extension over 10 feet long (3m), before you do any "permanent" installations...

[jitterjames]

I've got my xbmc data grabber working. It could use some more work, in terms of error checking, but if you use it properly it should work.

Run it, set the paths and click convert. If it works, it will store the paths in the registry so you don't have to enter them every time.

Once you have verified it is working you can call it like this:

xbmcDataGrabber.exe -silent

and it will run automagically and then close itself.

the two paths that you need to select are:

1) the path to your xbmc data files. For me it is in
C:\Users\*myusername*\AppData\Roaming\XBMC\userdata\Database

it should contain the files MyMusic7.db and MyVideos34.db

2) the path where the xml files will be created. This will most likely be in the voxCommando directory or one of its subdirectories.

I still need to write the Vox part of the code to read the xml files and create the commands but please test this and let me know how it goes.

[jitterjames]

if you have an iPhone or iPod touch that is microphone capable, you will be able to use the next version of voxCommando by talking to your iPod. This would probably work with other devices as well as long as they can record sound and upload it to ftp.

check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJq8XfOu2Jo

Ideally I'd like to have an iPod app designed especially for this purpose instead of using RecordPad, but I don't have a mac so I can't develop one myself. Anyone interested?

This will be more useful when os4 comes out for iphone / touch with multitasking so you can easily switch back and from from recordPad and whatever else you are doing.

[matt_jackson]

kk first post - here we go:

The only reason why I have bumped into this board is ur video on youtube.
I must say I am totally impressed by ur work and functional from Vox Commando.

All that, is with Eventghost and VoxCommando many new material and I need time 2 overview.

I have seen another user on YouTube with ur prog and XBMC in German speech.
So similarly I would have it also but only with Windows media center.

Maybe it would be n1 2 be made a tutorial video from the first point of EG, Plugin and VC installation.
I came from a german WMC board and m8 I can tell u there are many fans behind me like the same Star Trek stuff but not 2 easy 2 install 4 a newcomer....


Now I will read on of all and soon start 2 try.
I would first 2 give ur a feedback of ur very amazing app.


MaTT

[jitterjames]

Hi Matt, thanks for your words of praise. It's that kind of encouragement that makes me want to keep developing VC.

I will be releasing a new version of VoxCommando soon, so you might want to wait for that. Vox is very easy to install and pretty easy to set up if you know how!

Eventghost is pretty easy too once you grasp the basic concepts. If you read the following link thouroughly, you'll be well on your way. It is worth it too, because whether you use VC or not, EventGhost is fantastic and you'll wonder how you ever lived without it! If you know a little bit of programming and aren't afraid to experiment it gets even better because it's really easy to write scripts and plugins in EventGhost.

http://www.eventghost.org/docs/short_manual/index.html

I would read that, and see about setting up some macros for windows media center. This should help with controlling windows media center.
http://www.eventghost.org/forum/viewtop ... f=9&t=1838

note that there is a MCE plugin for using an MCE remote, this is different from the plugin for controlling Media Center.

I don`t use Media Center, but I don`t think the functionality of that plugin is great. It`s mostly just sending key combinations. So you probably won`t be able to ask for songs or movies etc. by name. You`ll be able to create commands like up down stop play etc.

If someone knows how to write some kind of message plugin for MediaCenter I would be happy tot collaborate, but I currently know nothing about it, so it would be a long time before I could put something together.

If you want something plug and play with almost no setup, I have a version for itunes, but it is only for itunes, you can`t do anything else with it. No EventGhost required.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLG5HuW1J_Q

anything I can do to help, just let me know. If it`s not about Vox, then message me instead of posting on this forum topic.

[jitterjames]

some new youtubes

skype dialing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEGMN1VYZhE

using multiple commands through ipod or iphone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTkO3AzYJKs

[matt_jackson]

I will be releasing a new version of VoxCommando soon, so you might want to wait for that. Vox is very easy to install and pretty easy to set up if you know how!

Yeah, thats what I do

Thx 4 fast and detailed reply but I dont need Eventghost 4 other stuff. I use an AsRock ION 330 (incl. ir remote) only 4 WMC/homecontrol complete control only with 22" multi touch monitor. Sometimes I use my Harmony 4 IR Hifi/Tv but I hope next time I control all with ur voice commando

....and itunes...wtf is that? sry but Im an wm user from first time and hate any "i" products (only 4 my son I had 2 buy an 3g iPhone )

I still wait of ur stand alone plug and play app. Where did u release it?
I make ur german publicity H E R E


MaTT

[jitterjames]

Hi Matt, I don't have any plans for the near future to release a stand-alone version of VoxCommando. You have to use EventGhost. I like this system because it is very powerful and flexible, and you can set it up the way you like. There is no point reinventing the wheel. It would take me forever to recreate all the functionality of EventGhost.

you could also look into using Windows Speech Recognition Macros. Maybe Microsoft even has some voice control for media center already, I don't know.

I'm not a fan of iTunes either but their API actually made it really easy to create a stand-alone version for it. then again that project is probably not going to go any further in terms of development.

jitter'

[jitterjames]

Matt. I just followed the link you sent. Thanks for the free publicity! I used google translate to view the page, but I don't think it did a great job, so it was a bit hard for me to understand everything.

I noticed some talk about getting vox to understand german. I believe the solution is as follows.

First of all you need to edit the command tree, so that the phrases you want to use are written in german. Vox is completely customizable:

Also, you need to set the default language in windows control panel speech advanced settings. This is the same place that you select your trained profile if you have more than one.

on my version of windows I go to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Speech Recognition and then click "advanced speech options" on the left panel.

I hope this helps.

I can probably make a video showing how to install EG and VC and do some simple commands for WMC if that would help, but it will take me a while to get around to it.

By the way, I use VoxCommando without doing any speech training at all and it works great, as you can see in the videos.