[mythtv] Speech enabled MythTV

[Mark Edwards]

Cory,

I've often thought about this myself... Festival looks pretty good and not
to hard to integrate. The real killer would be to add speech recognition
too.

I've often thought of saying "Play Sibelius" to the computer and have it
answer me with a possible selection... the Speech Synthesis is fairly mature
for linux, but the speech recognition might just be a little harder. I was
looking at sphinx...

Mark
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cory Hamma" <mythtv at wabbiter.com>
To: <mythtv-dev at mythtv.org>
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2003 8:42 PM
Subject: [mythtv] Speech enabled MythTV


> I have a question -- I am interested in creating a modified version of
MythTV
> that enables visually impaired people to easily navigate the menu system
of
> MythTV.  My future goal is to have a DVD or CD based distribution capable
of
> running on specific hardware, with a talking installer / repair program.
>
> Ha!
>
> So, given that I have used open source speech synthesis programs before,
how
> crazy is this task?
>
> Before I get any replies as to "why the heck would you care about having
> speech synthesis for TV watching" let me point out that visually impaired
> people watch TV too, and there is NO SPEECH SUPPORT in ANY of the PVR
devices
> currently distributed.  Plus, visually impaired (or blind) individuals
also
> watch tv with their sighed friends and relatives, so it is important to
have
> something that is going to have a visually appealing menu system (such as
MythTV).
>
> The speech would need to cover the basic menu functions, such as reading
the
> currently selected option.  Example:
>
> Main Menu -> Watch TV -> [Station Number] [Station Name] [Show Name]
[pause]
> [show description]
>
> -> (right arrow then pressed) [Show Time] [Show Name] [pause] [show
description]
>
>
> Main Menu -> Watch Recorded Show -> The Simpsons ... Homer blows up the
plant
> again [pause] [recording date/time/station]
>
> I think there might be some developers out there that might be interested
in
> helping too.
>
> TIA for the input,
> Cory Hamma
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