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One Voice Technologies
November 6, 2008

I followed a link from the Voice Tracker Array Microphone to One Voice Technologies, which is a company that is actively pursuing the home automation sector. Reading their website, it sounds like they understand the big picture pretty well and have some primitive but working products. Very cool!


Voice Tracker Array Microphone
November 6, 2008

While I was doing some Google searches the other day, I came across a link to a developer who had put together a from-scratch voice recognition application for his pocket PC. I seem to be impressed by the spirit of curiosity in people that drives them to figures out how complicated things work, and so I sent him an email to tell him that I liked his project. I also mentioned in the email that I was interested in the field of voice recognition and specifically home automation. His response surprised me: He had just started working on the very same project!

He sent me a link to the Voice Tracker Array Microphone and it has been very eye opening. It's great to see an example of a company working on the very technology that I was reading about in a paper a couple of weeks ago. Perhaps this microphone would be capable of implementing far-field command and control ASR in a kitchen environment?


Exercise 33: Unit conversions and dietary information
November 5, 2008

Use cases:

Unit conversions. For example:
"Convert X kilograms to pounds"
"Convert X kilometers to miles"
"Convert X metres to feet"
Alternatively "What is X kilograms in pounds?" or "How many pounds are in X kilograms?"
Support: pounds, kilograms, grams, ounces, metres, feet, inches, feet_and_inches, yards, miles, kilometres, celsius, fahrenheit, kelvin, cups, tablespoons, teaspoons, litres, millilitres, gallons, cubic metres

Dietary information:
How many calories are in {quantity} of {food_item}?
ex. How many calories are in a can of Pepsi? 
How many grams of {nutrient} are in {quantity} of {food_item}
Nutrient types: carbohydrate, protein, fat 
Support at least 10 food items.

Solution

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Grace application

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