Re: Observation about group

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Jeff Blakeney replied:

>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.

One of the places carrying it is "All Electronics":

www.allelectronics.com

It's called the "Voice Direct Speech Recognition Kit", and the board
actually comes fully assembled, but it must be connected to power,
a speaker (for prompts), and an included microphone.

-michael

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