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Originally Posted by scoobydoo

the only thing i have'nt done is apt-get upgrade as i was told this can cause issue's

Originally Posted by taixzo

That's more or less how I imagined writing a text. However, three things in that that I am still trying to figure out:

1. Pocketsphinx uses a pre-trained grammatical model. This model apparently assigns a very low probability to multiple numbers being used in sequence, so it never seems to recognize a phone number. Even saying ten of the most distinctively pronounced number (seven), it only recognized four sevens. This is something I need to work on with the voice model, but have been putting off until I have enough time to recompile the model (maybe Sunday).
2. Also, Pocketsphinx is not very good with names. This could possibly be alleviated by running a phoneme search on all contacts once it's determined to be not a number.
3. If the user is dictating a text, there needs to be some way to edit what they said. Ideally, this would also train the voice model. This is definately possible, but I need to learn more about pocketsphinx first.

I'm working on it.

Originally Posted by don_falcone

...up until now, the possibility for a "brick"* was almost solely given if marmisterz messed with extras-devel shortly before.
* the term "brick" isn't appropriate here (for the N900 anyway), and wrongfully used for ages now.

Originally Posted by misiak

You are a very clever man, never ever ever run "apt-get upgrade" with extras-devel enabled, it can make your Maemo system unbootable so you will need to either reflash or restore backup using backupmenu!

edit: ok, brick is not a good word here, you are right

Originally Posted by imo

when saera is going to hit the repos ,any idea ?
Edit ::taixzo please answer this ,i would like to know as everyone else does .
Would love to test it on a regular basis as there are different updates coming every new day !!

I see. I plan to look into creating custom language models after my upcoming exams. I have found some tutorials on Voxforge and if it is not beyond my capabilities, I could then make a 'translation' of your app to my language (AFAIK there ain't any publicly available language models for Czech yet). Do you think it would be useful to include some kind of GUI to choose your own model as part of settings to your app?

Just got an idea - if you want to add some location & navigation queries, I can quite easily add some CLI options to modRana for that.

Example queries that modRana could be used to handle:

Routing

Code:

find a route to X.
find a route from X.
find a route from X to Y. # not sure how to separate the addresses reliably

X & Y could be anything Google Directions can handle (address, coordinates, etc.).

Local search

Code:

Find me the nearest X

The X could be anything that can be found using Google Local search, as that is the currently used backend. It handles ATMs, restaurants, pubs, stations, shops, carparks any many other amenities just fine.

Address search

Code:

Show me on the map where is X.

ModRana can also geocode a street level address and show results on the map (if there is just one results, it zooms right on it or shows a list of results if there are more than one).

Wikipedia search
ModRana can also search Wikipedia articles with geographic cordinates, shows the results on the map & provides a short description + clickable link to the full article. Not sure how a naturally sounding query for this would look like.

Showing current position on the map

Code:

Show me where I am.
Show me where I am on the map.

This would just start modRana and center to the current position.

The CLI arguments could look like this:

Code:

--route-to
--route-from
--local-search
--address-search
--wikipedia-search
--show-current-position

So, what do you think ?

This project is rather unique, but it might be good to look at some other open source speech projects (frontends to speech recognition software) too.

Some time ago, I heard about Simon. While its functionality is a bit different and I'm not even sure some of the tasks could be accomplished on the N900, it's worth while to look at the wiki and presentation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_9ImaiOISs
EDIT: They had made a MeeGo version too, including support for voice dial and navigation! A blogpost with video here.

Regarding the text editing, I think it could be made the way Siri handles it (at least from what I've seen from this video). That means showing a simple text area as a confirmation.

Also, as you asked for user suggestions, it would be powerful to take advantage of online services as GoogleCL reportedly works on Maemo or Google Search CLI or Google Translate CLI for that matter. Of course, I do not expect you to include this in your app directly, just to add support to trigger it and possibly list results.
Modrana integration looks like a great idea and because it uses Google Maps API, it would make future translation an easy task, since Google recognizes different grammar (at least declension in the Czech language).

Last thing, some inspiration could come from the Apple TV ads . While Siri asks server for results, we will probably never be able to achieve all this functionality locally, but imagine how cool it'd be to show it off to friends together with the Apple ad

Coming back to the topic, as for AI - have you looked at projects like FreeHAL, Howie or anything other which is open source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chatterbots or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...gence_projects (but on the last one, there are also other types of AI, not only chatterbots)? I don't have much experience with open source AI, after quick research Howie seems to work well offline, I couldn't run FreeHAL without network connection on Windows unfortunately...