Voice-Controlled Robosapien

robotsrule writes "Robosapien Dance Machine, a free, open source program hosted on SourceForge, now uses the CMU Sphinx 3.5 speech recognition engine. The Sphinx 3.5 engine is also a free, open source program on SourceForge. You can now control your Robosapien robot using just your voice as well as build fun complex scripts to make your Robosapien robot dance, do comedy skits, and other performances. Currently the software uses the USB UIRT infrared transceiver to talk to the robot. Support for other infrared devices is being added this month. There is a short unrehearsed movie of the robot responding to voice commands that you can watch."

Comments

Re:Definitely offtopic- don't even bother

[Kimos]

It's because nobody is at work! Do you know anyone in IT who doesn't spend at least some of their day on /.?

Re:Possibilities

[chman]

Firstly, I don't think that it being FOSS has much to do with the creativity of this project. This could be done in an entirely proprietary coding language based on the ancient communication skills of yaks high in the Himalayas and it would come to serve the same purpose. But hey, you used the term and it got you a mod point. Kudos.

Secondly, as far as I can tell this is not actually controlling the Robosapien with your voice, in the same way that I'm not actually communicating with the internet in binary. It's a kind of 'monkey-hear, monkey-repeat' tool, by setting up macros that run on the input of your voice, designed to beam commands to the Robosapien by IR. Following this theory, one could strategically position a USB anemometer as the input and claim to be controlling the Robosapien by farting.

Still, cute toy to play with.