2014-05-15, 20:12
@ruuk and other python developers here,
Any thoughts on also adding basic voice control command support to your addon or as separate addons to add further accessibility functions into XBMC?
I was thinking that it would be great for both blind and non visually impaired persons alike even just to have some basic commands during playback like; play, pause, stop, next, previous, and search.
Speech recognition and voice control commands have previously been discussed here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=9280
As a concept and for ideas checkout the very cool "Jasper" project which is user-friendly 'always-on' accessibility platform and open source Python-based implementation that uses CMU Sphinx ( http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net ) , and even though the current Jasper client is not designed for XBMC it is nice as a proof-of-concept, and since Jasper is now quickly becoming a popular community driven framework for other to develop always-on, voice-controlled applications project, you too could create a "Jasper Client" for XBMC using that upstream Jasper cleint code
http://jasperproject.github.io/
https://github.com/jasperproject/jasper-client
There is also an non-Python voice control open source software for controlling XBMC on Linux that is called called "xbmcvc" (short for XBMC Voice Commands) which also uses CMU Sphinx for voice recognition, same as the Jasper project
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=123621
https://github.com/kempniu/xbmcvc
xbmcvc send the commands via XBMC's JSON-RPC API so perhaps could get some ideas from it as it already supports XBMC navigation and playback commands
xbmcvc supported navigation commands; UPWARDS, DOWNWARDS, LEFT, RIGHT, SELECT, BACK, HOME, CONTEXT, WEATHER, PICTURES, TV, VIDEOS, MUSIC, PROGRAMS, SETTINGS, FAVORITES
xbmcvc supported player commands; PLAY, PAUSE, STOP, MENU, PREVIOUS, NEXT, SHUFFLE, UNSHUFFLE, REPEAT ALL, REPEAT ONE, REPEAT OFF
Any thoughts on also adding basic voice control command support to your addon or as separate addons to add further accessibility functions into XBMC?
I was thinking that it would be great for both blind and non visually impaired persons alike even just to have some basic commands during playback like; play, pause, stop, next, previous, and search.
Speech recognition and voice control commands have previously been discussed here http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=9280
As a concept and for ideas checkout the very cool "Jasper" project which is user-friendly 'always-on' accessibility platform and open source Python-based implementation that uses CMU Sphinx ( http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net ) , and even though the current Jasper client is not designed for XBMC it is nice as a proof-of-concept, and since Jasper is now quickly becoming a popular community driven framework for other to develop always-on, voice-controlled applications project, you too could create a "Jasper Client" for XBMC using that upstream Jasper cleint code
http://jasperproject.github.io/
https://github.com/jasperproject/jasper-client
There is also an non-Python voice control open source software for controlling XBMC on Linux that is called called "xbmcvc" (short for XBMC Voice Commands) which also uses CMU Sphinx for voice recognition, same as the Jasper project
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=123621
https://github.com/kempniu/xbmcvc
xbmcvc send the commands via XBMC's JSON-RPC API so perhaps could get some ideas from it as it already supports XBMC navigation and playback commands
xbmcvc supported navigation commands; UPWARDS, DOWNWARDS, LEFT, RIGHT, SELECT, BACK, HOME, CONTEXT, WEATHER, PICTURES, TV, VIDEOS, MUSIC, PROGRAMS, SETTINGS, FAVORITES
xbmcvc supported player commands; PLAY, PAUSE, STOP, MENU, PREVIOUS, NEXT, SHUFFLE, UNSHUFFLE, REPEAT ALL, REPEAT ONE, REPEAT OFF
(2014-02-04, 19:26)RockerC Wrote: <alt> tags could possibly also open up additional opportunities for voice command API for voice control of XBMC too.
That could be a very cool accessible feature even for non-disabled people too in order to voice control XBMC, which could as such act to motivate more developers to join this cause.
There are several already several software and products our there for speech recognition and voice control for multimedia, however personally I'm here specifically imagining using the Ubi ( http://theubi.com ) always-on voice-activated computer to control XBMC as it seem more user-friendly that most other devices.
Checkout quick introduction video for the Ubi here on Kickstarter:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/607...d-and-al-0
You can just imagine the Ubi as a cheap and simple way to get natural voice control commands similar to that of Tony Stark's JARVIS (J.A.R.V.I.S.) artificially intelligent butler computer in the Iron Man movies
http://ironman.wikia.com/wiki/J.A.R.V.I.S.
http://marvel-movies.wikia.com/wiki/J.A.R.V.I.S.
Sorry if I want too off-topic here with the voice command API idea as an additional accessible feature for XBMC
