[as-devel] Re: Voice Recognition and AS
Ethan (allanon@crystaltokyo.com)
Thu, 1 Jul 1999 13:13:02 -0700 (PDT)
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Derek Wyatt wrote:
> I have been playing around with ViaVoice from IBM recently. It isn't
> ready for a dictation type of scheme right now, especially considering
> that it can't be trained for a particular person's voice at all easily.
>
> However, it handles simple grammars very well! Something like "window
> resize twenty five eighty" is detected with about 95% accuracy. ones that
> don't come close enough are simply rejected. It's extremely rare that it
> causes some 'strange' behaviour.
>
> I am going to integrate voice recognition into version 1.7.111 for my
> own purposes. Now, i asked a few people in #afterstep, and they thought
> that it might be interesting to have. So i figured that it might be a
> good idea to integrate this into AS 'nicely' so that the feature could be
> enabled on configure if one wanted it.
>
> Do you agree that this may be a good idea?
Sounds neat.
> If so, what would be the best way to integrate the code? I haven't looked
> at the source for AS yet, so that's going to be something i look at today.
>
> Would this best be done as a module (i hope!) or does it need to be
> integrated into src/afterstep/* ?
I'd suggest making it a module. If you need to be able to do something
that modules can't currently do, we might be able to add new commands.
For example code: the Gnome module is an example of a module that does
lots of message passing, Tile and Cascade move and resize windows, Ident
can determine a window's current state.
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Ethan Fischer
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