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Originally Posted by Ecallan
I did as directed and I'm very pleased to say that it works a treat. So your long hours of work on this project have really paid off! It is simply fantastic to now be able to turn pages by voice. Thank you for the additional commands, but really the most important one is "next page", followed closely by number two "previous page".
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I am glad that it works and that you like it.
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Originally Posted by Ecallan
As a follow-on from your work and the trial, I'm going to look into getting an Intel stick PC, coupled with a battery pack and the microphone. I should be able to set it up that the PC starts up and opens the HTML page that you've constructed. I should also be able to get it to load the dictation software in the start-up process. I've done this at work with a relatively slow PC.
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I would not rush into things. An intel stick PC seems a rather expensive choice for two buttons (next page, previous page), and maybe also a heavy battery consumer. There is possibly some (development) board that can do the needed job (sending requests over usbnet) and is compatible with some speech recognition shield. I simply have no idea about this kind of stuff.
If you go the Intel stick PC way, then there are still some things to be aware of. There are some problems that I saw with the Windows speech recognition when testing.
It responds to any sound whether it is produced by putting a tea cup on the table, closing a door, what people say passing by, etc. If it cannot make any sense of the sounds, it simply asks "What was this?" So this is not so much a problem. But if it can somehow identify it as kind of command, things are different.
It happened to me that it opened another tab of the browser in search of the unknown command. If you do not have a screen, you simply do not know what is happening. And if you figure it out, it might be difficult with speech commands to put the focus back on the tab of the browser that you need (I did not try this). Once it interpreted what it heard as a command to start a certain batch file on my pc. Fortunately, this batch file only sets some environment variables and waits for further commands. But I have certainly batch files on my pc that could do some harm. Without seeing the screen it is difficult to know what is happening on the pc.
I guess I want to say that you need some way to restrict the range of actions the speech recognition is allowed to do. I did not look into this.
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Originally Posted by Ecallan
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It is a nice project. Maybe you should consider buying a kindle after all.
Best wishes,
tshering