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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!
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
I was not aware this man invented the Universe.
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
"Thanks for winning WW2 for us America!"
*ducks*
Be you Admins? nay, we are but lusers!
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.
So... you can ask your computer for porn?
"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"
Sarah Positions? She sounds hot.
The CB App. What's your 20?
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)
I used sphinx recently (pocketsphinx) to implement a voice recognition system for a sailboat, allowing quadriplegic sailors to control the boat. Sphinx is a decent voice recognition system but can't match big time commercial products like Google voice or Dragon naturally speaking. This is especially the case if you want recognition of natural speech (instead of the few code words used in my project). Have you considered the microsoft speech API (http://www.microsoft.com/speech/speech2007/default.mspx) ? I don't have any personal experience but I've heard that it is a fairly powerful system.