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Google Voice Controls Giant LED Display
compumike writes "What geek among us has never thought about how cool it would be if you could call your computer and have it do stuff? Josh Davis put together a quick video demo and source code of his Voice Controlled LED Marquee, powered by Google Voice speech recognition and a DIY LED Array Kit. Imagine using the same display for monitoring server uptime, or RSS feeds!"
Certain keywords will trigger its response (and possibly its speed)
Give me slashdot dammit!
I need the f***ing RSS feeds off CNN's news from Baghdad!
Where the HELL is Taco!
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I was not aware this man invented the Universe.
The first that that came to mind, having just finished watching the new Metalocalypse, is the scream-activated lights they installed in every room of their house.
Of course, they have been using Goog-411 to improve it, and Google Voice will only accelerate that (on the plus side, I don't need a landline at all anymore with cheap international calls).... but Google's voice search on the iphone is much better than I could ask of it.
If they came out with a voice recognition product, the field currently dominated by the mediocre Dragon Naturally Speaking, I'm sure they could completely kill the competition.
*Work laptop with Google Voice on nightstand*
Woman: Oh yes, make love to me baby. Fuck me!!
I'd like to see how that conversation goes down when your boss looks at your search history.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits" - Albert Einstein
And you can use the side of a building in Europe.
THAT would be impressive.
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Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Google Voice speech recognition isn't exactly the best. "Hey, Zack, this is Terrence at [company name here]. Please give me a call as soon as you get the chance to. We need to, uh, we wanted to know if you were going to make it in to day. Thank you." somehow becomes "Hey there, This is Sarah positions. Please give me a call as as soon as you get a chance to. We need to we. What's up for you not be able to make it today. Thank you."
And he speaks pretty clearly too.
Just link your cheating ex-girlfriend's voice mail to a local electronic road sign. Not the easiest hack but well worth it.
nothing to see here.
builds on top of existing software to check and convert to text, and other existing software to change the message to scroll.
if(voicemail text starts with 'message')
set message to scroll to(voicemail text after 'message')
the "pull" implementation is stupid and creates huge lag when existing push tools already exist that could get the message to the sign as fast as google could convert it to text (i'm guessing quick).
so: hack job. and a hack hack job at that.
and all that clipping on the scroll is not acceptable.
"Did that display just ask for Sarah Connor?"
I record my sleeptalking
So... you can ask your computer for porn?
I'm sorry, but none of us at /. monitor server up time.
We monitor servers and services. I thought we all accepted that most modern day Operating systems are good for 3+ months uptime. At least until the next patch cluster comes through.
"Imagine using the same display for monitoring server uptime, or RSS feeds!"
I'm trying to imagine it, man, but it's BLOWING MY FREAKIN' MIND.
Wait, I thought this article was about using voice control with the display, not the display itself (which is ancient).
"A week in the lab saves an hour in the library"
So, you work at Cision?
If I know his keyword, I'd start calling him and leaving messages just to screw with his sign.
Sarah Positions? She sounds hot.
The CB App. What's your 20?
Get the LED board to flash the voice message in Morse code
Why isn't it 24x5? Isn't it always X before Y? Ex: it's 1024x768, not 768x1024...
"Imagine using the same display for monitoring server uptime, or RSS feeds!"
I'm trying to imagine it, man, but it's BLOWING MY FREAKIN' MIND.
Wait, I thought this article was about using voice control with the display, not the display itself (which is ancient).
I just managed to get my server to stop calling 900 numbers and start calling my Google Voice. RSS feeds haven't worked so well though. With the server calling and leaving a new voicemail every millisecond, the website can never seem to get through.
Ho-hum. I was doing this crap with a voicemodem, Homeseer, and a BetaBrite display like 10 years ago. It had far less latency, too. I mean kudos for building your own LED grid, I guess, but neither voice recognition nor LED control, nor tying the two together with scripts, it particularly new.
If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else.
Damn, I thought he'd figured out a direct way to interface with the google voice recognition software. THAT is something I could really use right now. A project that does it through the phone though....not so much.
On a related note, anyone know of any very good and easy to interface with free (open source is very highly preferred, but free beer is ok too) voice recognition software? I'm currently looking at Sphinx-4, but I have absolutely no experience in this area.
Say via http. with buttons, or text or something. Oh wait.
Sent from my PDP-11
It's an interesting hack, but I really don't like the commercial feeling the story has, with a link in the slashdot post, an oral mention of the LED kit seller in the video, and a big "Thanks nerdkits" displayed at the end.
it appears a free text msg to your phone is too much to ask...but, yeah, nice twick...
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Considering he just used google's API, made it output some text to a file, read that file and then called an API that takes text and renders it to appropriate signals to the LEDs, I am not impressed? I am more impressed by, oh I don't know, a team creating something of complexity...like say...Windows Vista!
Well to be honest, I was expecting a GIANT LED display, like the ones used for outdoor advertising; something in the range of 15x10 feet or something. This one is huge in terms of big LEDs, nothing else.
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Imagine setting up scripts like one in the demo for certain commands, like poweroff, hdd wipe, switching on/off heating/lighting, and so on. Now imagine a funny friend learning your trigger word. Now, how cool is that ? :))
I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I can think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
I guess it will not take long until Google will have their ads displayed on that LED array...
If Pandora's box is destined to be opened, *I* want to be the one to open it.
Keep an eye on local business (call centre) sales or ebay - I picked up a 1m long AAC Corp 'AgentView' call centre display for 25UKP - there's a lot of 'closing down' kit around at the moment.
Currently, the displays is hooked up the BBC news RSS feed in the support room, but the control software can display pretty much anything.
AT&ROFLMAO
LED marquee mounted on rear window of car.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
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I'm a mute you insensitive clod!
Heck, I just did "This is a test", it transcribed it as "Hello".
"He's lost in a 'floyd hole"
Tm
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Imagine if the people could actually read what you were shouting at them whilst driving:
"F**cking Moron! Open your f**king eyes"
"Hey Hot Mamma..."
"Fucking cops. o shit"