Google Voice Controls Giant LED Display 66
compumike writes "What geek among us has never thought about how cool it would be if you could call your computer and have it do stuff? Josh Davis put together a quick video demo and source code of his Voice Controlled LED Marquee, powered by Google Voice speech recognition and a DIY LED Array Kit. Imagine using the same display for monitoring server uptime, or RSS feeds!"
How my computer knows I'm ordering it to do stuff? (Score:3, Funny)
Certain keywords will trigger its response (and possibly its speed)
Give me slashdot dammit!
I need the f***ing RSS feeds off CNN's news from Baghdad!
Where the HELL is Taco!
Re:How my computer knows I'm ordering it to do stu (Score:2, Funny)
Woman: Oh yes, make love to me baby. Fuck me!!
I'd like to see how that conversation goes down when your boss looks at your search history.
Completly built from scratch? (Score:2, Funny)
I was not aware this man invented the Universe.
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Stay thirsty, my friends.
Google's speech recognition is uncannily good (Score:4, Interesting)
Of course, they have been using Goog-411 to improve it, and Google Voice will only accelerate that (on the plus side, I don't need a landline at all anymore with cheap international calls).... but Google's voice search on the iphone is much better than I could ask of it.
If they came out with a voice recognition product, the field currently dominated by the mediocre Dragon Naturally Speaking, I'm sure they could completely kill the competition.
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Google's speech recognition is uncannily good
What, for unusually small values of uncanny? I love google voice, but the voice recognition could still use some work.
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I just tried it. Pretty good! Thanks.
Now hook it up to Blinkenlights. (Score:2)
And you can use the side of a building in Europe.
THAT would be impressive.
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"Thanks for winning WW2 for us America!"
*ducks*
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Google voice speech recognition needs a little wor (Score:3, Informative)
And he speaks pretty clearly too.
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Heck, I just did "This is a test", it transcribed it as "Hello".
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Makes sense (Score:2)
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Nope, it just said "THERE IS ANOTHER SYSTEM".
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I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours.
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Naughty talk (Score:4, Insightful)
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Server Uptime? (Score:1)
We monitor servers and services. I thought we all accepted that most modern day Operating systems are good for 3+ months uptime. At least until the next patch cluster comes through.
Whoa dude (Score:4, Funny)
"Imagine using the same display for monitoring server uptime, or RSS feeds!"
I'm trying to imagine it, man, but it's BLOWING MY FREAKIN' MIND.
Wait, I thought this article was about using voice control with the display, not the display itself (which is ancient).
You're missing the point (Score:2)
"Imagine using the same display for monitoring server uptime, or RSS feeds!"
I'm trying to imagine it, man, but it's BLOWING MY FREAKIN' MIND.
Wait, I thought this article was about using voice control with the display, not the display itself (which is ancient).
I just managed to get my server to stop calling 900 numbers and start calling my Google Voice. RSS feeds haven't worked so well though. With the server calling and leaving a new voicemail every millisecond, the website can never seem to get through.
Steampunk cool (Score:1, Funny)
Get the LED board to flash the voice message in Morse code
Why 5x24? (Score:2)
Why isn't it 24x5? Isn't it always X before Y? Ex: it's 1024x768, not 768x1024...
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Welcome to the year 2000 (Score:1)
Ho-hum. I was doing this crap with a voicemodem, Homeseer, and a BetaBrite display like 10 years ago. It had far less latency, too. I mean kudos for building your own LED grid, I guess, but neither voice recognition nor LED control, nor tying the two together with scripts, it particularly new.
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Big deal.
I did it with two tin cans, twine, and a lite-bright.
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Light bright?
In my day we only had twine.
And no one had invented language yet either!
Aurgh (Score:2)
Damn, I thought he'd figured out a direct way to interface with the google voice recognition software. THAT is something I could really use right now. A project that does it through the phone though....not so much.
On a related note, anyone know of any very good and easy to interface with free (open source is very highly preferred, but free beer is ok too) voice recognition software? I'm currently looking at Sphinx-4, but I have absolutely no experience in this area.
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If only you could control things without voice. (Score:1)
nice little hack but... (Score:2)
It's an interesting hack, but I really don't like the commercial feeling the story has, with a link in the slashdot post, an oral mention of the LED kit seller in the video, and a big "Thanks nerdkits" displayed at the end.
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Oh yes, and the poster's link is to the company website, so he's definitely affiliated with them.
lol (Score:1)
GIANT LED display? (Score:2, Insightful)
Imagine (Score:2)
ads (Score:1)
I guess it will not take long until Google will have their ads displayed on that LED array...
You wanna BIG matrix display... (Score:2)
Keep an eye on local business (call centre) sales or ebay - I picked up a 1m long AAC Corp 'AgentView' call centre display for 25UKP - there's a lot of 'closing down' kit around at the moment.
Currently, the displays is hooked up the BBC news RSS feed in the support room, but the control software can display pretty much anything.
Killer application for this (Score:2)
Nice, but.... (Score:2)