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Voice recognition
« on: July 01, 2005, 01:43:35 PM »
I've been having fun with the voice commands feature of MacOS X... sadly I tend to have to repeat myself a few time before it gets me... does anyone have any tips on this excelent labour saving feature?

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Re: Voice recognition
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2005, 08:06:12 PM »
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Is the recognition absolute (like an automated helpline where you have to say the word so that the computer recognises it) or is it programmable? If it's the former, I don't know what you can do, but you must be in a better position than me with my South African accent. If it's the latter then...
A good mate of mine had problems with a Winblows-based programmable voice recognition package and got around it by recording the simplest words he could, even if the words were not related to the function they were supposed to initiate. He found that two-syllabel words with dramatic pitch-changes between the syllabels worked best. Eg. 'ping-pong' will be easier to recognise than 'wordpad'.



It is programmable in the sense you can perform predefined actions and attach scripts to the command phrases, the command phrases are fully programmable. You can even set it to not be picky about how you prase your command: "What is the Time?" and "What Time is it?" are both recognised as requireing the same action, even though only one phrase is programmed in.

I love surfing the web, hands free... for more important functions :-D

It also allows to to give it a name, which you must say before (or after depending on your preferance) issuing the command. Mine is called Lilith :-P

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Re: open the iPod doors
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2005, 07:47:39 AM »
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@ blobrana,

I was interested in "Ultra Hal" after reading your post, but now I'm confused.  I thought itunes was a mac only program and Ultra Hal is Windows only from what I could find?  Is there an Ultra Hal for Mac?


iTunes is available for Windows