Re: Observation about group

[CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 17 Dec 2001 18:55:00 GMT, mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

>There is a small (about 2" x 2") circuit board now available from several
>"hobby" sources that contains a DSP that does speech recognition.

That sound very cool.

>It is easily trainable, and delivers up to 32 "recognition signals" upon
>hearing a recognized word or phrase.  It can even work in "wakeup" mode,
>in which it listens to everything, waiting for a "wakeup" word or phrase to
>arm it for further recognition.

This is one of the improvements I was thinking of doing to the Steve
Ciarcia's design.  That way you can make it very Star Trek like.  You
say "computer" to let the computer know you are talking to it and
follow it with the command.

>It costs about $50.

That's not a bad price.

>You might want to check into it.

Thanks for the info.

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