So, on Friday, when I was driving up 101 I came up behind Ajay's cool "Speak W Me" car. This is the one that has an array microphone (and tons of computer and audio equipment in the trunk) and where you can tell the car "play Black Eyed Peas Shut Up" and the right song will start playing.
Someday we'll all have a geek car so cool. But, in the meantime, the rest of us will need to look at his blog. Nice new rims Ajay!
Ajay is the founder of a company that is working on speech recognition software for cars and portable devices. Pretty cool stuff.
We played with speech recongition for our device, the PenguinRadio, but kept getting hung up with playback of audio interfering with the voice recognition input. We also tried it with our phoneradio system, but again had the same problem of anytime you said something it kicked on the VR system and things got all haywire.
It got to the point that we had to add a ‘Star Trek’-like command “Computer”, do this that etc”
We played with speech recongition for our device, the PenguinRadio, but kept getting hung up with playback of audio interfering with the voice recognition input. We also tried it with our phoneradio system, but again had the same problem of anytime you said something it kicked on the VR system and things got all haywire.
It got to the point that we had to add a ‘Star Trek’-like command “Computer”, do this that etc”
Here are some photos of Ajay’s amazing car;
http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/archive/2006/03/05/135789.aspx
Here are some photos of Ajay’s amazing car;
http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/WebLog/paul/archive/2006/03/05/135789.aspx
If it was me programming it, the car would start sorting through the Black Eyed Peas, get ready to play… then obey the “Shut up” command and do nothing.
I’ll have to have a look - it’ll be interesting to see how he gets the car to hear him around a sound level that rocks my furniture when some of the kids round my neighbourhood pass around two blocks away with the “doof doof” noise.
If it was me programming it, the car would start sorting through the Black Eyed Peas, get ready to play… then obey the “Shut up” command and do nothing.
I’ll have to have a look - it’ll be interesting to see how he gets the car to hear him around a sound level that rocks my furniture when some of the kids round my neighbourhood pass around two blocks away with the “doof doof” noise.
Many cars have voice recognition in them, my Acura TL 2004 has quite a few voice activated controls, and the Acura RL has even more.
Here’s a gallery of a TL that’s pretty loaded.
http://www.acurainspired.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4670
Many cars have voice recognition in them, my Acura TL 2004 has quite a few voice activated controls, and the Acura RL has even more.
Here’s a gallery of a TL that’s pretty loaded.
http://www.acurainspired.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=4670
Just put a Windows Mobile Pocket PC in ur car - install Microsoft Voice Command and then you can voice activate media player artists, genres, make phone calls to people by name or number, and much much more! I love it!
Just put a Windows Mobile Pocket PC in ur car - install Microsoft Voice Command and then you can voice activate media player artists, genres, make phone calls to people by name or number, and much much more! I love it!
Hey, Thanks for the compliment Robert! Great to see you here locally again too
Jeremiah, regarding the Acura TL / RL — they are only using a speech recognizer in there (and 3 of them at that), not a dialogue manager.
I can’t really go into the specifics, but let’s just say that Speak With Me has a very good relationship with the people who made the TL/RL system…
And the people who make the OS for the TL/RL system too (Gee, I wonder who that is…)
Hey, Thanks for the compliment Robert! Great to see you here locally again too
Jeremiah, regarding the Acura TL / RL — they are only using a speech recognizer in there (and 3 of them at that), not a dialogue manager.
I can’t really go into the specifics, but let’s just say that Speak With Me has a very good relationship with the people who made the TL/RL system…
And the people who make the OS for the TL/RL system too (Gee, I wonder who that is…)