scot@amigash.UUCP (Scot L. Harris) (12/01/89)
[I wonder if the line eater ever gets indigestion?] Several weeks ago I called Impulse to order the SV upgrade for Turbo Silver and was given the chance to get VoRecOne at a pretty good price. VoRecOne is a voice recognition system for the Amiga. So now, you Amiga can not only talk to you but it can listen to you and perform actions based on what you say! I have not seen mention of this little device on the net so figured I would give you my initial impressions after about 3 days of playing with it. The hardware itself consists of a small blue box connected to the joy stick port and a microphone. The disk provided contains an editor program and a player type program called recone. With the editor program you create what I guess is called a voice script, a list of words and actions to be performed when those words are activated. The script language that comes with VoRecOne appears to be fairly comprehensive, although I have not tried some of the more advanced features yet. (one feature of interest to some is the REXX command that allows you to send commands to other programs that have AREXX interfaces) Once you have your voice script typed in you then train the system to recognize your voice for each word. This is a fairly quick operation where the system displays each word you are to train and you speak into the mic. The system requests each word twice, sometimes more, and then moves on to the next word. You can go back later and retrain particular words if they don't work well. After saving your work you can then use the test mode to check out the script and make sure it does what you want. When you say a word in test mode a requester pops up telling you what the system thinks you said. You can then ignore it or let it perform the actions in the script designated for that word. There is a use mode in the editor to allow further testing I assume. In normal operation you would use the recon program which is a player type program. Recon has a small window associated with it which can display the words currently available if you want. It also allows you to disable/enable VoRecOne. The hit rate on it appears to be pretty good. I would estimate that it gets the correct word about 75 to 90% of the time. I expect this will improve as I get use to using it. The number of words that can be taught appears to be unlimited. There are commands that allow loading of new word lists on the fly. IMHO this is a pretty slick little device! -- _ /// /_\ Scot L. Harris !hoptoad!peora!{tarpit,rtmvax}!amigash!scot \XX/ / \ M I G A 2872 Stallion Dr., Orlando, FL 32822 (407)273-1759 [VoRecOne by Impulse. Now my Amiga hears me, but does it really listen to me?]
root@ccave.UUCP (Juergen Hermann) (12/05/89)
In article <2184.AA2184@amigash> scot@amigash.UUCP (Scot L. Harris) writes: >figured I would give you my initial impressions after about 3 days >of playing with it. Your report was very interesting, and I have a few questions: Could you please inform us of your impressions when you played with it for more than 3 days? :-) If you're as enthusiastic after 3 weeks, I might consider to buy it. And please post the full address of the company that produces this thing. And prices, if you have them. > The hit rate on it appears to be pretty good. I would estimate that it >gets the correct word about 75 to 90% of the time. I expect this will Is this the rate (75 to 90%) for not recognizing a word at all, or the rate for getting a wrong word from the list, or both? How often does it misinterpret words when the list of words is *long*. -- // Juergen Hermann root@ccave.smurf.ira.uka.de \X/ 75 Karlsruhe 1, FRG Fido: 2:241/2.1212@FidoNet