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<blockquote data-quote="kwazi" data-source="post: 50612" data-attributes="member: 20263">Voice Remote control vs. Voice User InterfaceVoice Remote Control is a great idea, but it doesn't really improve user experience and gives us a power of &quot;Star Trek&quot;&nbsp; <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />&nbsp; isn't it?I was just scribing some requirements for new PlugIn, when I ran into this topic. Good VUI (Voice User Interface) can significantly shorten the time and be a great fun. Imagine that you, based on your database, can say something like &quot;Find me all my Jazz music&quot; or play Mozart, or ask &quot;what's the weather in New York tomorrow&quot;,or &quot;Record all Start Trek movies on Sci-Fi channel&nbsp; today&quot; without even being in the relevant screen. You can set Alarms, check e-mails and zillion other things. So I thought about plugin that will have the following basic functionality:1. Hotword support (something that must be said to wake the system up)2. Dynamic, template based grammars generation. (Plugin will scan the database and based on the templates will create sets of &quot;commands&quot; that will be understood by the SR engine).&nbsp; Plugin will scan the list of already installed plugins and generate for them commands list. Actually any plugin creator will be able to create template for VUI for his own plugin by himself.3. Being template based, plugin will support different languages4. Reference implementation of integration with basic MP functionality such as Music, Pictures, Videos, probably Live TV5. Free MS Speech Rec engine is .... free and it is the only good word I can say about it. It will not work well in even slightly noisy environment and it's functionality is highly limited.&nbsp; Thus it will probably be much better choice to integrate this plugin with Sphinx <a href="http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php" target="_blank">http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php</a>. There are&nbsp; several other options.Being a veteran in the field of Speech Recognition and VUI, I'm still not familiar with MediaPortal internals. So if this plugin seems interesting to you, ppl, I'll be happy to join forces and develop it (Actually, I'll develop it anyway, it just will take longer&nbsp;&nbsp; :wink: )Your opinion, gurus ....[/url]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kwazi, post: 50612, member: 20263"] [b]Voice Remote control vs. Voice User Interface[/b] Voice Remote Control is a great idea, but it doesn't really improve user experience and gives us a power of "Star Trek" :) isn't it? I was just scribing some requirements for new PlugIn, when I ran into this topic. Good VUI (Voice User Interface) can significantly shorten the time and be a great fun. Imagine that you, based on your database, can say something like "Find me all my Jazz music" or play Mozart, or ask "what's the weather in New York tomorrow", or "Record all Start Trek movies on Sci-Fi channel today" without even being in the relevant screen. You can set Alarms, check e-mails and zillion other things. So I thought about plugin that will have the following basic functionality: 1. Hotword support (something that must be said to wake the system up) 2. Dynamic, template based grammars generation. (Plugin will scan the database and based on the templates will create sets of "commands" that will be understood by the SR engine). Plugin will scan the list of already installed plugins and generate for them commands list. Actually any plugin creator will be able to create template for VUI for his own plugin by himself. 3. Being template based, plugin will support different languages 4. Reference implementation of integration with basic MP functionality such as Music, Pictures, Videos, probably Live TV 5. Free MS Speech Rec engine is .... free and it is the only good word I can say about it. It will not work well in even slightly noisy environment and it's functionality is highly limited. Thus it will probably be much better choice to integrate this plugin with Sphinx [url]http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/html/cmusphinx.php[/url]. There are several other options. Being a veteran in the field of Speech Recognition and VUI, I'm still not familiar with MediaPortal internals. So if this plugin seems interesting to you, ppl, I'll be happy to join forces and develop it (Actually, I'll develop it anyway, it just will take longer :wink: ) Your opinion, gurus ....[/url] [/QUOTE]

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