Billy Overton

Getting back to software

 RS-232  HTTP GET/POST  Infrared  Custom

 Pros  Many devices have RS-232 control  Extremely simple  Has common libraries  Usually well documented  Cons  Uncommon Hardware  No common command set

 Pros  Uses pre-existing controls systems  Can be as simple as an iframe  Customizable  Cons  Usually less documented

 Pros  Almost everything has a remote  Will cover all the functions a user wants  Has premade tools: (Win)LIRC ▪  Cons  Time consuming  Hardware Dependent

 Pros  You can do anything you want  Cons  More hardware

From voice to code

 Kinect for Windows  Microsoft Speech Platform

 Speech Recognition Engines  Grammars  Recognition Results

 There are two types  We’ll use SpeechRecognitionEngine();

 Define what we are looking for  Have three methods of creation  GrammarBuilder class  SrgsGrammar class  Srgs XML file

 Allows you to add items such as strings and Choices objects to build a grammar  Used to create a Grammar object

 recognitionEngine.LoadGrammar(g)

 Two Methods  Synchronous ▪ recognitionEngine.Recognize() ▪ Returns RecognitionResult  Asynchronous ▪ recognitionEngine.RecognizeAsync() ▪ recognitionEngine.RecognizeAsync(mode) ▪ Raises SpeechRecognized event

 Contains all data regarding one grammar match.  Most notably contains:  Result.Text  Result.Confidence

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