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Old 10-17-2012, 08:58 AM   #1
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Default Classic amiga speech recognition?

Were there any speech recognition packages, either speaker dependant, or speaker independant, made for classic amigas?

If you used one, how well did it work and on what specs machine?
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Old 10-17-2012, 09:22 AM   #2
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Default Re: Classic amiga speech recognition?

I remember having one, never actually was able to use it because I didn't have a sound sampler at the time, but it would throw this disembodied head up in a window that would turn and stare at you and blink every so often, and tell you in it's robotic voice to "Please enter voice commands". If I'd had a sampler I could've recorded voice commands that this application would then interpret (to run programs, for example).
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Old 10-17-2012, 09:54 AM   #3
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Hi,

There was one called "VoRec One" or some variation on that spelling. I remember using it about 1987-88. It ran on a stock A500.

edit: Just found it on here:

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showha...gi?HARDID=1117

Perhaps someone out there has a picture...
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Old 10-17-2012, 10:10 AM   #4
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Default Re: Classic amiga speech recognition?

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Were there any speech recognition packages, either speaker dependant, or speaker independant, made for classic amigas?

If you used one, how well did it work and on what specs machine?
A friend of mine tested something named voicecli or something like that, it was fun hearing him saying "dir" to his miggy and watching a list of files appear :-D
http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/VoiceShell
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Old 10-17-2012, 10:16 AM   #5
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Default Re: Classic amiga speech recognition?

Given the zionist pigs are brainwashing us into thinking 4ghz is the bare minimum for cool stuff on computers (which is bullcrap as A C64 is a superior machine to EVERY Mac and Wintel PC lump of $hit ever made sorry).

I never used it on Amiga but would be interested to try one given how **** even 1000mhz Pentium3 based PCs handle voice recognition
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Old 10-17-2012, 11:45 AM   #6
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Can I use this http://aminet.net/package/util/misc/VoiceShell with delfina sound card? It has a input, can ai plug microphone to it? or how???

Sorry asking stupid, newer actually needed/used delfina, except playing mp3
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Old 10-17-2012, 12:57 PM   #7
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Default Re: Classic amiga speech recognition?

Another vote for VoiceShell. It actually works well. You have to strike a balance with the detection accuracy. So if it's low accuracy, it may mix similar words/commands up. Higher accuracy and you'd have to say them exactly the same. So you have to set it correctly.
As far as I remember, you will need a parallel port sampler for this to work though. I'm afraid a soundcard won't work.
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Old 10-17-2012, 01:13 PM   #8
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Were there any speech recognition packages, either speaker dependant, or speaker independant, made for classic amigas?

If you used one, how well did it work and on what specs machine?
I used to use VoiceShell in the late 90's. I had a standard A1200 then with some fast ram. VoiceShell worked well, but when it detects a signal (when you speak) it has to analyse it, so it does eat some CPU. I suspect it would be happier with a 25Mhz 020/030 or above.
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Old 10-17-2012, 02:47 PM   #9
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Default Re: Classic amiga speech recognition?

I remember also some library...

Check these also:
http://aminet.net/search?query=voice+recognition
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Old 10-17-2012, 04:25 PM   #10
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I remember also some library...

Check these also:
http://aminet.net/search?query=voice+recognition
voice.library, I think. VoiceShell and several other speech utilities use it. If it could be adapted to support AHI, we'd have ourselves a pretty cool speech platform.
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Old 10-18-2012, 02:32 AM   #11
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Given the zionist pigs are brainwashing us into thinking 4ghz is the bare minimum for cool stuff on computers (which is bullcrap as A C64 is a superior machine to EVERY Mac and Wintel PC lump of $hit ever made sorry).

I never used it on Amiga but would be interested to try one given how **** even 1000mhz Pentium3 based PCs handle voice recognition
Wow.

I wasn't even aware Mel Gibson had an ever so angry twin brother.
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Old 10-18-2012, 05:55 AM   #12
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Default Re: Classic amiga speech recognition?

think Ive used Voiceshell, too. But I remember it wasnt analysing speech, you first had to create 3 samples for each command you wanted to use. Either that, or Im mixing it up with something else.

Either way, never record a voice command for the delete command, I would say
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Old 10-18-2012, 08:03 AM   #13
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Default Re: Classic amiga speech recognition?

Still its nice to know that the old girls can do something like this. I'm going to look into it more when I have more time...

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Old 10-18-2012, 08:37 AM   #14
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Wow.

I wasn't even aware Mel Gibson had an ever so angry twin brother.
lol I'm an engineer, and I see it in the world every day...
"Is this 4ghz PC fast enough to read my emails and surf the internet"
"Yes it is sir, for now anyway"
Just get fed up with the attitude the industry is putting out and the fact newbies believe Amigas and C64s must have been utterly pathetic stone age devices given their CPU speeds in single megahertz ratings. The reality is computing today is pathetic despite having 4000x more power than a 6510 inside a C64.

Having said that I do believe OS2 Warp had speech recognition/control built into the OS and that was in the era of 100-200mhz Pentium 1 PCs. I never used it but assume it must have made an attempt to work as it was part of the OS. Hence my interest to see how well it worked. Warp was installed on the Tecra 5xx series laptops at work in the 90s for our engineers but I never used a laptop (never off-site)
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Old 10-18-2012, 10:21 AM   #15
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The reality is computing today is pathetic
Well said, because software wise it's absolute bovine excrement out there these days.
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