[App_rpt-users] Possibility of voice control

[mike at midnighteng.com]

Skyler,

I have done this in asterisk several years ago. Not exactly as you
describe.
I have played with voice recognition off and on since the late 80's
It is a form of "fuzzy logic"

The skinny is...

It takes some cpu power to continuously monitor the audio and look for a
matching pattern.

While most folks don't talk with good breaks in their words or even
pronounce the words the same way all the time that makes voice
recognition not work very well, 

Example from the news where folks get paid to speak....
The word "IRAQ" as irack but folks say...
irock
earack
earock

it leads to a bunch of falsifying commands. The more commands and more
varying of types of voice patterns and how they speak, the more
false's/errors you will have.

While it is possible to generate a error map to re-translate the known
errors that will happen with people, it is a very big task not
"normally" worth the time.

I currently use a single dtmf command to open the interface up.
Translate speech to text.
Check text against command list.
Act on it.

IBM has opened a developer interface with "WATSON" but is limited to
just a few categories for now like travel. I have interfaced it with
other AI servers with some cool stuff but not highly useful, just toys.

Still only a toy but I have had hopes to being able to look-up chemical
database & msds sheets info for a direct read-back of most important
info in the field if needed.

I gave up on trying to interface most DB connections on the web, I think
I need to have the info on a dvd or local drive. You need to have a
translate table for all the known abbreviations that might be used in
the DB's.

It all takes time to do. To many irons in the fire

Perhaps you might like to read on the speech to text systems you can
set-up for asterisk for a learning experience. You may get somewhere
with that method you can use. Use the text for command.

...mike/kb8jnm


 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [App_rpt-users] Possibility of voice control
> From: Skyler F <electricity440 at gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, January 03, 2015 9:53 am
> To: "app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org" <app_rpt-users at ohnosec.org>
> 
> 
> Hi, has anybody thought of voice control with AllStar? It might sound kind
> of pointless, but I think it would draw more attention, and could show that
> ham radio is high tech and up to date with everything else and 21st century
> because a lot of phone systems use voice control and I would think there is
> something for asterisk that would be attachable.
> 
> Here is an example. A speed dial contact of "Skyler" would be added to 40764
> 
> PTT ON
> 
> 
> "kd0whb connecting link. Allison. Connect to Skyler"  (Allison Calls voice
> control, this makes sure that it doesen't get called at random times)
> 
> PTT OFF
> 
> Allison announces "node 40764 connected"
> 
> I know the voice control technology is increasing every year, and I bet it
> would even work with a bit of noise. And if not, just revert to the ol' DTMF
> 
> Resaons
> 
> •Voice control is becoming a part of everyday life in the 21st century
> 
> •If someone is mobile, they wouldn't have to punch in the codes unsafely
> 
> •The DTMF mic broke/ don't have one
> 
> •Someone forgot the DTMF codes
> 
> •Just another fun/cool thing that AllStar could support.
> 
> 
> I am no programmer by any means, and I could never do anything like this. I
> am just curious about the possibility of someone adding it to AllStar in
> the future and how hard it would be/ what would be needed.
> 
> 73
> Skyler KDØWHB
> -- 
> Skyler Fennell
> amsatnet.info
> KDØWHB
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