Velleman K8000 - [K8000 Applications] - [K8000 Speech Recognition]
Did you think making speech recognition applications are hard to build? Then you thought wrong! Finally, there are very easy solutions to do the job. You can add components for speech recognition on your (visual basic) forms, the same way you add command buttons. A little bit source code and you have made your first speech enabled application! This page describes a little project, to demonstrate the use of speech recognition in your applications. In the picture below, you can see a screen shot of the demonstration application.
Description of the application
This application allows you to control the K8000 by giving voice commands. Currently this can only be done in English. Every command starts with an X. This makes sure the program knows you are giving a command to it. There are 4 different commands available: "X SET" to set all I/O channels. "X RESET" to clear all I/O channels. "X MORE" to increase the DAC1 output value and "X LESS" to decrease the DAC output value.
Download the program
The application can be downloaded for free, only the source code is available. download the zipped source code (Visual Basic 5.0/6.0). You will also need the speech recognition engine, which can be downloaded from the Microsoft Website (executable file, 6 MB) After downloading, you have to run the program and follow the instructions.
Extra comments
this project is just a demonstration project. I cannot guarantee this software will run on every computer. This application requires the DriverLinx portIO driver to run properly.