Re: voice commands in gnome-shell?

[Ross Smith <myxiplx googlemail com>]

Yes, I did think the naming part would be the most difficult, but
since I've no knowledge of open source voice recognition, I thought
I'd throw it out there :-)

The other tasks are few enough that it should be much simpler to get
those running, and even switching between workspaces should be easy
enough - if you've got 4 workspaces open it's only got to recognise
which of the 4 names you just said.

And even if you could say "name workspace", and type the name it would
be a start, although keyboard shortcuts would now be able to offer
similar functionality.

Might it be possible to assign Activity names in advance (in
Hamster?), and just use the voice control to assign the current
workspace to an Activity?  That greatly reduces the amount of words it
has to try to recognise.

Unfortunately I'm no coder, so I don't think I'm going to be any help
creating this, and I know it's a lot easier to come up with these
ideas than implement them in practice.  I'm always happy to help with
testing though, I seem to have a good knack for breaking stuff :-)

Ross



2009/5/8 Siegfried-Angel <siggi gevatter gmail com>:
> 2009/5/8 José Luis Ricón <artirj gmail com>:
>> I must say, Siegfried that the normal open-source speech recognition
>> may not be as good as it should be, but when the vocabulary of the
>> speech recognitor is reduced to
>> (workspace,open,close,name,etc,firefox...) the quality greatly
>> improves. This is feasible, and it will be matter of discussion on the
>> Ubuntu UDS, btw.
>
> Yes (at least for English, I think for most other languages we can
> forget about it for now), this is why I was specifically quoting the
> «"name workspace:  development", and watch the workspace name in the
> panel» part. We can get some few "commands" to be recognized and do
> something, but not recognize random words to name a workspace.
>
> There are also solutions to easily create customized speech corpora
> (and at least one of them seems quite good, but I haven't got to test
> any of those yet). This would solve the problems with
> internationalization and with people having weird pronunciation :P,
> but I don't think this is something the average computer user will
> want to do in the near future (of course this is only my personal
> opinion, I may be wrong). If we used this ideally there would also be
> an option to send the result back to Voxforge and contribute to the
> "generic" corpora.
>
> Despite this, I'd love to see more work in this area, I just don't
> think it's ready for massive deploying right now (unless it's having a
> few commands in English, but that isn't really that useful).
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT)
> Ubuntu Developer. Debian Contributor.
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