Speech recognition as input ?

[Ron]

I'm not currently aware of any in-progress attempts at this. I've been planning on a plugin based on the Microsoft Speech API, the first part in this endeavour is the say plugin, but I never got around to extending it.

What library are you going to use ?

As for the questions about the tree, no plugins do not know about the tree. You can add stuff to the plugin so the user can notify the plugin on what words should be active though, that is much more flexible IMHO, that way you can modify the list any way you want not just based on the loaded application/active group!

[Ron]

I propose this as the solution.

The plugin keeps an internal word list. By using actions the user can add and remove words from that list.

Girder then triggers this action, adding and removing on any event that you like. For example application switch! Does exactly what you want and more.

[babear]

Hi,

I'd like to write a girder plugin using speech recognition to control a PC.

Do you have advice about the best way to deal with it ?

I mean:
the speech recognition engine I'll be using requires that the list of words to be recognized are known. As I intend to control several application
(as specified in Girder), I guess I'll have to get the words (action actually) directly from the girder tree.

it would be easier for the recognition if it could only have to deal with the words regarding the current active application. Is Girder able to detect the active application and notify the plugin which parts of the tree are 'activable', I'm not sure I'm clear here.

Are you aware of any attempt to use speech recognition with Girder ?

Keep on the good work !

[babear]

Ron, I sent you a deeper explanation to 'support'.

The concept of active application would have been useful to reduce the number of active words because the recognition can make more mistakes
if the number of words increases: and some commands have no meaning for some application.

If you think of something to retrieve the actions associated to the current active application, it's welcome !