chef 3745 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 (edited) Yeah, face recognition is super extensive on the CPU. The microphone array would work best in Vox commando if you apply the setting from the Microsoft.Kinect sdk libraries, simply because there are some interesting noise cancelation and microphone array directional option that Are kind of cool. Music control is possible, however it is a microphone array which pretty much sits directly between your left and right front speakers and usually above your middle surround sound. Once you start a song even at medium volume, it is hard to pin point the user making commands afterwards (oh Amulet Remote you truly are the best of inventions, with your sleek and shiny red blinking light). I think that media control and speech recognition has definitely made ground in the last couple years, but unfortunately a microphone array in the middle of a room, whilst watching a "HD DTS Audio movie" is just asking for disaster (better have a remote control on hand at all times!). I also agree that waving my arms around to get gestures is just silly, as I am old as well, however I have been able to add interactions which is simply a closed and open hand. But I will continue to apply ideas until it works. @@Redshirt Vox commando android to control my media browser with voice, might even make me reconsider an open air situation. Edited September 3, 2014 by chef Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chef 3745 Posted September 4, 2014 Share Posted September 4, 2014 Hi jitter! I could try and explain what spaceboys intentions were. Please @@Spaceboy correct me if I am wrong about this. Currently there has be some struggle with the kinect app. Just a quick back ground: Speech rec. is built in the "System.Speech" namespace not the "Mircosoft.Speech" namespace, because the latter will not allow enough command (grammars) to be added into the speech recognizer. Microsoft.Speech stops adding choices and grammars at about 300, which is hardly enough for some of the members large media libraries. System.speech can load all the grammars/choices for proper browsing. However, this means that the recognizer has to be trained. Yeah! The long and annoying speech training sessions. Also, I only recently allowed for the recognizer to load different culture tokens. It was only until recently that people with accents took interest in the project, so "en-US" was always loaded. Although this has been fix recently, it is still pretty new. I use to write for the Amulet Remote control, but everyone and their kid has a kinect sensor, so it seemed only reasonable to make a switch. This also meant a huge learning curve in programming, after all it is a microphone array and not a remote two inches from my mouth. In order to over come these obstacles certain measures have been taken to stop Mis recognitions. Unfortunately this does complicate the App slightly (you have to request its customizable name - then ask it to listen before you give any browsing commands). Some good ideas have been added too though, for instance, we load and unload grammars based in library names. Example: if you are browsing "movies" only the library items returned from the query and their IDs exists in the recognizer, along with the other library names. If you change libraries, then all the item choices are removed and the new library items are added. It gets quite complicated when you drill down into seasons of tv series and episodes, because you want to allow to switch seasons, but also episodes in the current season, and also change series, but also allow for library changes. Don't even get me started on all the playback commands you want to add at this point. At this point the kinect app does get complicated. And it doesn't even turn on the cameras after it loads, this is just speech recognition stuff. But we plug along, and attempt to build a better program. It has been a long time, and it is just recently started to work for a small group of people. I do Mis using my Amulet Remote though, I love my Amulet Remote and yes even my copy of Vox commando is still suiting in my Programs list, I am actually a long time fan James Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgileHumor 123 Posted September 19, 2014 Share Posted September 19, 2014 Music control is possible, however it is a microphone array which pretty much sits directly between your left and right front speakers and usually above your middle surround sound. Once you start a song even at medium volume, it is hard to pin point the user making commands afterwards (oh Amulet Remote you truly are the best of inventions, with your sleek and shiny red blinking light). I think that media control and speech recognition has definitely made ground in the last couple years, but unfortunately a microphone array in the middle of a room, whilst watching a "HD DTS Audio movie" is just asking for disaster (better have a remote control on hand at all times!). My Aucustic Magic open air microphone has a line in from the sound system to tune that sound channel out. Also, want to echo the Amulet remote control is awesome as you mentioned and I have my best success with this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lja 48 Posted September 22, 2014 Author Share Posted September 22, 2014 Wishing & hoping! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraslor 70 Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Put in 10! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitterjames 18 Posted February 1, 2015 Share Posted February 1, 2015 We are almost there! Thanks to everyone who pledged and to all for your patience. Here is a pre-release demo of VoxCommando's new plugin for MediaBrowser which will be available in all versions of VoxCommando starting with version 2.1.3.7 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epu5cxO2B3A Attached is a pdf summary of what seems to work correctly with which MB3 clients. The next version of VoxCommando that we release will include the plugin and the English configuration for MediaBrowser. At that time we will also create a short installation video and Wiki guide. MB3-client-comparison.pdf 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraslor 70 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I think I came.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgileHumor 123 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 (edited) delete me, pii cleanup Edited April 17, 2015 by AgileHumor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lja 48 Posted February 2, 2015 Author Share Posted February 2, 2015 @@jitterjames Great. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitterjames 18 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I'm happy, but not as much as @wraslor I will post back here when the next release comes out. Should be this week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CashMoney 94 Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I'll give this a try when it comes out, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonmcroy 315 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Oh wow. Am I too late to the party? I will throw in $5 but it looks like it's already in developement? I have never heard of this program before now and I am going now to download and try it out! -Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitterjames 18 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Save your money for a VC license in case you like it, but the version with MB3 support has not been released yet so you might want to wait for a couple of days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonmcroy 315 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Save your money for a VC license in case you like it, but the version with MB3 support has not been released yet so you might want to wait for a couple of days. Thanks for your quick response! I have just now downloaded and started playing around with the current version. I am liking it so far. I look forward to your next version with MB support! -Jason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitterjames 18 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Let's do this. VoxCommando version 2.1.3.8 with a new Media Browser plugin is here! More details here: https://plus.google.com/111676462313545255894/posts/1Sz4j99HuBb If you are already using VoxCommando with another configuration, I recommend you start with a clean install in a new folder and install the default MB3 configuration. After that you can consider combining old commands with new ones. There is already a video tutorial covering this topic. For those who pledged support for the development of this plugin, you can honour your pledge by making a donation at the following page: http://voxcommando.com/home/purchase/#44821222be7f95bd4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitterjames 18 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 If you downloaded the 2.1.3.8 installer before 4:00 pm EST be advised that it contained version 2.1.3.7 of the main VoxCommando.exe This won't really affect MediaBrowser. Just some minor updates in the core program. It is fixed now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraslor 70 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Let's do this. VoxCommando version 2.1.3.8 with a new Media Browser plugin is here! More details here: https://plus.google.com/111676462313545255894/posts/1Sz4j99HuBb If you are already using VoxCommando with another configuration, I recommend you start with a clean install in a new folder and install the default MB3 configuration. After that you can consider combining old commands with new ones. There is already a video tutorial covering this topic. For those who pledged support for the development of this plugin, you can honour your pledge by making a donation at the following page: http://voxcommando.com/home/purchase/#44821222be7f95bd4 You had to release it when I got to work ahhhh!!!! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitterjames 18 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Try to keep it in your pants until you get home Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraslor 70 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Heck with that it's already out and I'm using team viewer! muahahah... Serious question though, I use MB classic with mpc-hc as an external player. Will vox be able to see that mpc-hc has launched and play, pause, close, etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitterjames 18 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 (edited) I have no idea! That's probably more of a question for ebr I think, but you'll find out soon enough. Edited February 3, 2015 by jitterjames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37022 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Heck with that it's already out and I'm using team viewer! muahahah... Serious question though, I use MB classic with mpc-hc as an external player. Will vox be able to see that mpc-hc has launched and play, pause, close, etc? The external player is solely MBC's responsibility. Vox speaks the language of a media controller - play, pause, stop, etc. How those functions are accomplished is in the hands of the app receiving the instruction. So it does not effect external players one way or another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wraslor 70 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 Great thanks guys. I'll report back when I'm actually home and have time to play around with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saajan4u 79 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 just made a pledge.. I'm in.. really hope this can work with mbc and mbt very soon.. cant believe I bought a Kinect sensor for no reason.. never got it working ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitterjames 18 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 (edited) just made a pledge.. I'm in.. really hope this can work with mbc and mbt very soon.. cant believe I bought a Kinect sensor for no reason.. never got it working ! It works with Dashboard, MB Theater, and MB Classic. Different clients work better for different things right now. All of them pretty much can browse to or play an item though. But with MB Classic for example you can do things like move and scroll which you can't really do with the web dashboard. I've tried to voice control MB on Kodi and Android and had some success but it's not too impressive compared to the other clients at the moment. The good news is that you should still be able to use your Kinect with VoxCommando. It is supported both as a regular microphone, and (somewhat experimentally) as a streaming array microphone with echo cancellation: http://voxcommando.com/mediawiki/index.php?title=Kinect_audio My personal preference is still an Amulet remote, or VoxWav or a good wireless headset. Edited February 3, 2015 by jitterjames Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jitterjames 18 Posted February 3, 2015 Share Posted February 3, 2015 The external player is solely MBC's responsibility. Vox speaks the language of a media controller - play, pause, stop, etc. How those functions are accomplished is in the hands of the app receiving the instruction. So it does not effect external players one way or another. Hopefully it will work using the following command chain (automatically) VC >> MBServer >> MBClassic >> MPC-HC ...but if not you can control MPC-HC directly from VC. It will just require a bit more effort to set it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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