Present Perfect

Started looking for voice recognition software. Yes, I want to control my Dave/Dina box with my voice ! The goal is to sit on the couch all day, talk to my tv and never get up, except to get beer (*).

I started out with cvoicecontrol. I got it to work surprisingly fast on my desktop machine. Download the program, add an #include <float.h> to the source (FLT_MAX was undefined), run a microphone config program (which tells you to talk and shut up at selected times), run a model editor program (where you define what you will say and what the program needs to launch), and then start up.

In five minutes I was off shouting "Slashdot" and "Chat" into my microphone, and most of the times it actually did what I wanted !

So when I came home last night, the goal was to install it on the Dave/Dina box and watch Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but ONLY by using the microphone.

Big mistake. I installed everything, did everything four times, but the damn thing has a mind of it's own. It didn't start anything. My housebrothers must have thought I'd gone mad because I was shouting "Buffy" more than fifty times in a row. They now I have a craving, but was it this bad ?

Anyways, I'll try again with a better microphone. It hardly records anything, except for b's and p's, on which it distorts.

And of course, there are other voice recognition apps...

(*) Personal Tidbit Fact #490139 : Actually, that's a lie. I don't drink beer.

Started looking for voice recognition software. Yes, I want to control my Dave/Dina box with my voice ! The goal is to sit on the couch all day, talk to...