- Pick a media player which offers an interface to basic functions:
play, play one episode, stop, rewind one episod and rewind <N>
episodes.
- Write a Tcl program to this interface.
- Figure out a way to get htis whole setup speech-controlled. A
possibility would be a 'speech to text' conversion (which was recently mentioned in the group) and its interpretation by Tcl, or maybe a
direct interface to Windows' speech engine, or ...
Hello out there,
since there are so many knowledgable people around here I figured it
would be worth a try.
The context: My mother (93 years old) suffers from 'age-related
degeneration of the macula' (Altersbedingt Makula-Degeneration, AMD).
This is pretty horrible since her near-field vision (that is the
region from 0 to 50 or 60 cm) is practically completely gone. Which
means she can neither read, write, knit nor solve puzzles like she
loved to do in the past.
Lately she developed some interest in audio books and so we bought a
handy and configured an app and the speech control so that she could
hear an audio book.
This was somewhat successful but now the handy kind of dissolved
itself and I had the following idea:
- Pick a media player which offers an interface to basic functions:
play, play one episode, stop, rewind one episod and rewind <N>
episodes.
- Write a Tcl program to this interface.
- Figure out a way to get htis whole setup speech-controlled. A
possibility would be a 'speech to text' conversion (which was recently mentioned in the group) and its interpretation by Tcl, or maybe a
direct interface to Windows' speech engine, or ...
This would be on Windows - but since she can't use her laptop anymore
I could install Linux there as well (if that helps).
Thanks for reading so far. Any idea, hint or link will be highly
appreciated.
A nice weekend to all of you
Helmut
On 08/09/2023 20:21, Helmut Giese wrote:
Hello out there,
since there are so many knowledgable people around here I figured it
would be worth a try.
The context: My mother (93 years old) suffers from 'age-related
degeneration of the macula' (Altersbedingt Makula-Degeneration, AMD).
This is pretty horrible since her near-field vision (that is the
region from 0 to 50 or 60 cm) is practically completely gone. Which
means she can neither read, write, knit nor solve puzzles like she
loved to do in the past.
Lately she developed some interest in audio books and so we bought a
handy and configured an app and the speech control so that she could
hear an audio book.
This was somewhat successful but now the handy kind of dissolved
itself and I had the following idea:
- Pick a media player which offers an interface to basic functions:
play, play one episode, stop, rewind one episod and rewind <N>
episodes.
- Write a Tcl program to this interface.
- Figure out a way to get htis whole setup speech-controlled. A
possibility would be a 'speech to text' conversion (which was recently
mentioned in the group) and its interpretation by Tcl, or maybe a
direct interface to Windows' speech engine, or ...
This would be on Windows - but since she can't use her laptop anymore
I could install Linux there as well (if that helps).
Thanks for reading so far. Any idea, hint or link will be highly
appreciated.
A nice weekend to all of you
Helmut
Just a thought - how about a full-screen Tk interface with 5 huge
buttons in contrasting colours - or single colour with a contrasting
border that changes colour when the mouse is over them?
All the best to your mother,
Alan
Helmut Giese <hgiese@ratiosoft.com> wrote:
- Pick a media player which offers an interface to basic functions:
play, play one episode, stop, rewind one episod and rewind <N>
episodes.
- Write a Tcl program to this interface.
Mplayer offers a "remote control" mode >(http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/slave.txt).
My pvr (custom Tcl code) uses mplayer's remote control mode to
interface an IR remote to mplayer to handle standard playback functions >(pause, jump forward, jump backward, etc.).
mpg123 also has a 'remote control' mode. Never written anything to
worrk against it, but I know it exists.
Both are Linux.
Just a thought - how about a full-screen Tk interface with 5 hugeHi Alan,
buttons in contrasting colours - or single colour with a contrasting
border that changes colour when the mouse is over them?
All the best to your mother,
Some possible information sources:
https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-accessibility/
https://lists.debian.org/debian-accessibility/
https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=%2Bdebian%20%2B%22speech%20recognition%22%20%2Bcontrol
HTH
This was somewhat successful but now the handy kind of dissolved
itself and I had the following idea:
- Pick a media player which offers an interface to basic functions:
play, play one episode, stop, rewind one episod and rewind <N>
episodes.
- Write a Tcl program to this interface.
Hello out there,We have a solution that integrates speech control with mplayer. Speech is managed with SAPI, media with mplayer from the mplayer project. i can give you the tcl code for the shared recognizer; we use a customized inproc version. Will give you some
since there are so many knowledgable people around here I figured it
would be worth a try.
The context: My mother (93 years old) suffers from 'age-related
degeneration of the macula' (Altersbedingt Makula-Degeneration, AMD).
This is pretty horrible since her near-field vision (that is the
region from 0 to 50 or 60 cm) is practically completely gone. Which
means she can neither read, write, knit nor solve puzzles like she
loved to do in the past.
Lately she developed some interest in audio books and so we bought a
handy and configured an app and the speech control so that she could
hear an audio book.
This was somewhat successful but now the handy kind of dissolved
itself and I had the following idea:
- Pick a media player which offers an interface to basic functions:
play, play one episode, stop, rewind one episod and rewind <N>
episodes.
- Write a Tcl program to this interface.
- Figure out a way to get htis whole setup speech-controlled. A
possibility would be a 'speech to text' conversion (which was recently mentioned in the group) and its interpretation by Tcl, or maybe a
direct interface to Windows' speech engine, or ...
This would be on Windows - but since she can't use her laptop anymore
I could install Linux there as well (if that helps).
Thanks for reading so far. Any idea, hint or link will be highly appreciated.
A nice weekend to all of you
Helmut
On 08/09/2023 21:21, Helmut Giese wrote:
This was somewhat successful but now the handy kind of dissolved
itself and I had the following idea:
- Pick a media player which offers an interface to basic functions:
play, play one episode, stop, rewind one episod and rewind <N>
episodes.
- Write a Tcl program to this interface.
Many media players on linux support the MPRIS API: >https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mpris-spec/2.2/
Communication happens through D-Bus, for which there is Tcl binding: >https://chiselapp.com/user/schelte/repository/dbus
P.S.: While "handy" may sound English, a native English speaker willGood catch! Now that you mention it, it is obvious. My only "excuse":
probably not understand that you mean a mobile phone. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfeMGVCX-Gk&t=312s
We have a solution that integrates speech control with mplayer. Speech is managed with SAPI, media with mplayer from the mplayer project. i can give you the tcl code for the shared recognizer; we use a customized inproc version. Will give you someexamples. However, too much to show here. Would be happy to share the code if you would like. email me at wheeldog99@yahoo.com.
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