Voice Controlled Robosapien

Robert Oschler · 2005-04-03T01:01:02+00:00

Yesterday I released the first version of Robosapien Dance Machine withVoice Control (Version Alpha - 2.0.1). You can now control a Robosapien withjust your voice. The software still has all the original powerful scriptingabilities for creating Robosapien movies, dances, and performances.What's really great is that the voice recognition is being provided by thewonderful CMU Sphinx 3.5 speech recognition engine.You can see a short movie of my Robosapien responding to my voice commandshere: can find the Robosapien Dance Machine files here: support for the program can be received here:'s an Alpha version so it's most likely still got some wrinkles in it. I'dappreciate a bug report if you find any problems. Currently it requires thesuperb USB UIRT from Jon Rhees:'m going to devote the month of April to supporting more infraredtransmitters, especially some cheaper ones, as many of you have requested.Thanks,Robert OschlerRobosapien Dance Machine

Apr 03, 2005 24 Replies

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Gordon McComb 21 years ago

Had some time this morning before going out to the shop.

With a fairly cheap microphone, and NO pre-training of the speech, the speech engine recognized 9 out of 10 words the first time around, then

10 out of 10 after I got the hang of it.

I don't have the USB UIRT that the system calls for to test the macro command output with my Robosapien, but the speech recognition is working perfectly, better than anything I've done with Microsoft speech agent.

Really, I think we ought to encourage the type of sharing Robert is doing, especially when verifying his system takes only a quick download and 10 minutes of your time.

-- Gordon

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Robo1 21 years ago

Come on that is fake

For VR you usually need a head set and a fairly large chip.

That is why I dought that.

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Brian Dean 21 years ago

Come to think of it, how do we know you are real?

Everyone that knows robotics knows the "mini cooper robot" is a fake. It certainly fools some folks though, but usually only the ones who learned everything they know about robotics from Hollywood.

However, the voice controlled dancing Robosapien is well within the technical capabilities of a dedicated Geek.

-Brian

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