[H-GEN] Voice recognition

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David Findlay <david at davsoft.com.au>
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> I have this bizarre attraction to the idea of wiring up my house with 
> microphones, and hooking it up to a computer to enable voice control of 
> windows, doors, lights, etc. Anyone know of free software for voice 
> recognition? The one project I've found is abandoned. Thanks,

Perhaps for the kinds of simple statements/commands you're looking for you 
could rig something up from commodity hardware. My brother has an ongoing 
door-lock improvement project he's been working on for quite a few years 
now. While I suspect this isn't exactly what you're looking for he was 
able to rig up a "Girltech" voice activated password journal to allow 
voice access to his humble abode :) In that particular example only his 
voice is recognised which might be a negative in your case, and also 
requires the press of a button to turn the microphone on an issue the 
challenge phrase.

Again, I don't think you'd get much mileage out of transplanting that idea 
directly you might find something applicable floating around in the toy 
market which wouldn't require your PC to be in control of 240V 
supplies[1].

Benjamin

[1] I presume you know what you're doing when it comes to relatively 
high-voltage electronics ;)


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