I feel this thread is about two different things: natural speech processing as needed to dictate letters, and issuing commands per voice. The first is very difficult, but there are many cellphones and systems out there that perform reasonably well for handsfree use for simple tasks, like calling a person without taking your hands from the steering wheel.

I really would like to see such a hands free system coming available on the N900.

Can any one help me posting this on brainstrom as i dont know how to do it.


Regards

is there any developer interested in this?

You _REALLY_ ... _REALLY_ need to work on your social skills.

If you check out the proposals for the 2010 GSoC in the wiki, you'll see that i added "pocket jeeves" as an entry a couple days ago. I built pockt sphinx on Maemo 5 and it works: it will recognize very accurately from a small library of useful command phrases i built into a language model. There's a big step from working compnents to polished product, and one of the major major handicaps a project like this has is that supporting all the languages the product line covers is prohibitively expensive (where time=money). If only English had to be supported, i think you'd see this in the core software...but it's not that simple. In other words, this is probably going to have to come from the community and is probably not going to support all the possible languages. It will require extensive dbus and other development skills and a lot of knowledge of maemo internals to do right (=context-based).

In summary, i would like to have handsfree command mode with voice feedback (ie pocket jeeves) but don't have the huge amount of free time doing it properly would require. I'll see if there's a brainstorm covering this and if not create one in the next few days, using the same ideas i already developed for the GSoC proposal and for my own project wishlist.

Voice call would be very useful!

You haven't had to deal with this guy before. Stay out of it.

-Thom

Brainstorm proposal here: http://maemo.org/community/brainstor...o_audio_ui-aui. Vote for it if you are interested in using voice commands for your N900.

GSoC proposal

Okay guys, thread "Voice Commands to N900" with 17 posts has been merged into this new brainstorm thread. Any more insulting or arguing will be deleted.

While i'm editing: if everyone took a post and time to respond to and insult every possibly uninformed post, the noise and volume of Talk would rise to a level unprecedented and make it useless as a forum. Please exercise restraint and let people's expertise (or not) speak for itself. It's usually not hard to tell who really knows what they are talking about...

There's always the "Ignore" setting if that's not enough.

This is a great idea, and I would be willing to serve as a mentor for it. I am the author of PocketSphinx and the GStreamer and Python bindings for it, and was also a main developer on Flite for quite some time.

Perhaps Maemo.org and CMU Sphinx could co-sponsor it? See our GSoc page at: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/summerofcode2010

Great.

We're open to co-mentoring, if you want to propose the project under the maemo umbrella, please sign in also as a maemo mentor: http://wiki.maemo.org/GSoC_2010/Ment...ecome_a_mentor