Re: VEDICS Speech Assistant

[José Félix Ontañón <felixonta gmail com>]

El 21 de mayo de 2010 11:01, bharat joshi <bharatjoshi1 gmail com> escribió:

Hi,

Ya we know about GVC, and we have tried it also.
You can say VEDICS is a super set of GVC.
Some of the key features of VEDICS are

1. Accuracy is much better as we use SPHINX-4.
2. File System Navigation - >Navigating files and folders is very easy.
3. Recognizes any thing- > Vedics is dynamic, in the sense it generates words and its pronunciation dynamically.For example, if we take a simple command like "run text editor", the front end changes as editor opens. Vedics generates a new list of words from the front end and produces its pronunciation and grammar files. This makes Vedics recognize any word. It can even recognize junk words like "hsjft"
4. We can pause and start VEDICS through voice using "stop listening" and "start listening" command.  In gvc, people had to use mouse to do it. You can also quit Vedics through voice.
   
5. Works perfectly on Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04.
6. Can access any element including checkbox, radio button, links, lists etc....
7. Popup menus like the one that opens on right click are also accessible.
   

I'm fascinating with the power of feature 3, it can generates pronun&grammar on-the-fly and context-based?
I suppose you mean that Vedics can recognize any word but in english languages, isn't? What about other languages?
Do we need a text/voice corpous to feed and training it in other languages?

And about feature 5, did you have some precompiled binaries or even debian packages for testing? I can't find in sourceforge any other thing than the svn repo.

Cheers!

2010/5/21 José Félix Ontañón <felixonta gmail com>

2010/5/21 Nischal Rao <rao nischal gmail com>

Hi,

I and some of my friends have created a speech assistant software for linux called VEDICS(Voice Enabled Desktop Interaction and Control System). Using this software the user can access any element found on the user's screen through speech. The user can also navigate the filesystem through speech.

We have created some demo screencasts of the software:

1. Accessing the gnome panel and application.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrVaJXtv0WU
 
2. Changing the theme and background.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRgX94qGj3g

3. Navigating directories and playing songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVQwAoeIavk

4. Running a slide show:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtzA8TFwvuI

5. Running default applications and window operations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCEANbu8p50

6. Stopping and starting vedics:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLFtdrlt3lM

7. Creating and deleting files:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3CFAl22h2o

8. Navigating links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AufBaaJazKU


Currently the software doesn't support the dictation facility. However, we are planning to add this feature in the future.
The best part of this software is that it is speaker independent, no training is required and it can recognize words not present in the English dictionary.

You can find the source code at : http://sourceforge.net/projects/vedics/

Hi Nischal,

Congrats! The screencasts are amazing and, as i can see in sourceforge, it relies on at-spi for discovering the elements that could be commanded, isn't?

I suppose you know about gnome-voice-control, even both projects shares sphinx for speech recognition so, what do you think vedics differs from gnome-voice-control or improve it?

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