is there any app for voice search?
 

if there is not, is it possible to use to make one that uses google's server for voice search? Cmon, there isnt anything that the n900 cant do

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

N900 is a step child, what do you expect? :)

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

What do you think the N900 is an android phone?

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

no i think n900 is a smartphone. And any smartphone should be able to do voice search.

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

Wow, now weren't those some positive answers... Maybe there is some open source speach recognition software somebody could build a voice search application on to.

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

espeak?

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Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

Its possible. Maemo's devs can do it eithout breaking a sweat. As far as i understand, all work is done on google's servers, we just need somebody to make it work

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

Espeak seems like a good idea. Maybe voice search can be implemented?

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

So anyone interested? I would do it myself, but i dont have programming skills

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

I'm interested. I'm a developer.
However: Google voice search has no public API.
There have been some people out there who have figured out that the way Android does it is to record the users speech in the speex codec, send it to the google voice servers which processes it and sends back results.

I have no knowledge of voice codecs, so when I looked at the speex library, it seems complicated because I don't understand most of the jargon.

Also: I've got an ulterior motive: If I do it, I will necessarily do it in QT so that it can be ported to Windows and Linux in addition to Symbian and Maemo.
Why Windows and Linux? Because I sorely need a voice recognition method to be able to be keyboard free - on Linux.

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

So can a recording app be used to record the speech in the similar codec as android and send it to google's servers? Also, porting it to windows seems like a very good idea

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

Guys, how much effort is it going to take to keep this thread alive? Majority not interested? Voice is an interesting feature by my opinion.

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

The fact is, I don't like cloud. I prefer on-Maemo voice recognition. So I'm experimenting with voximp:
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=58099

It listens and recognises but I wouldn't say it's usable right now.

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

on-maemo voice recognition? Wont you need a large database for that?
I like the idea though. But making a app that uses google's server would be less time consuming.

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

Pocketsphinx is already here, and the acoustic database it uses is
http://maemo.org/packages/view/pocke...mm-en-hub4wsj/

Voximp already works, it starts Fennec at random (I have told it not to second-guess himself and to execute a command even when it isn't sure it heard it correctly; and one of the commands is opening www.google.com in Fennec).
The problem is, you can have only one window of Fennec open, and now I have to find a way to open a new tab in Fennec window through command-line.

The fact is, I don't get Internet through WiFi (I usually get it through wired LAN / USB cable), so cloud-based application on N900 is oxy-mo-ron for me.


:) :) :)
I don't use words which have to be replaced with *. At least, I think so.

I will continue to research Fennec's command-line interface / file bug about it.

And I will also lookup in voximp how to call programs with arguments/open Google search for word pronounced.

Good luck.

Go to TMO
http://talk.maemo.org/index.php

Select a topic here; open it.

Above all the posts, at the left, you will see an orange button "New thread"

To create new thread in topic "Nokia N900", the link is
http://talk.maemo.org/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=44

Re: is there any app for voice search?
 

Facepalm: It took me some time to guess what sort of cuss word begins with an oxy...
(Edit: I guess I took too much to type this message)

For your specific case, I guess cloud based voice recog wouldn't be useful, but in my case or the OPs case, it would be quite useful.
There's also the Android envy that I keep suffering when I'm forced to use my wife's G2 to do any quick searches without having to flip, slide and type into a search box.

So here's what I'd like to propose: If someone is willing to help me out with 1. using speex in QT and 2. reverse engineering Google voice search server requests, I'll start immediately ;)

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im new to this can someone tell me how to make a thread need some help with something ??

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