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New member; a few questions ...
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Fri, 15 Dec 2000 14:21:21 GMT
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Geert-Jan Kruijff <gj@cogsci.ed=ihatespam=.ac.uk>
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Hi all!
I'm new to this list - so here goes a quick intro. My name is
Geert-Jan (usually abbreviated to GJ), I have a background in CS (AI)
and philosophy (logic), meaning that nowadays I work as a
computational linguist.
One of the things I'd love to try out is to add "speech" to a
legobot, both speech synthesis and speech recognition, preferably in
conjunction with the Vision unit.
I haven't tried this out, nor have I been able to find any links on
the web pointing to such attempts. So here are a few questions:
(a) Has anyone ever hooked up a speech synthesis chip (hardware) to a
legobot?
(b) Has anyone ever used the Vision software with an *on-board*
laptop? And, more specifically:
(1) Is there any insight in how much weight the Lego motors can safely
'pull', actually?
(2) What did the construction look like?
I presume a SONY Velo would perhaps be just fine (light, small); I
doubt one could use something like a Palm ;-) although that WOULD
be cute, naturally; and any laptop heavier than 4kg sort of seems
to be out...
If one could use an onboard laptop, one could run speech
synthesis/recognition software rather than having to make use of
dedicated hardware. And - "no cables detached" in this way.
Another question, arising from the fact that I am *not* familiar with
the Vision Command set:
(c) Is it possible to let the software communicate with other
software?
For example, one could think of various interesting setups:
(1) Vision/Speech "integration"
(2) Provided you have a BlueTooth network, you could have a mobile
WebCam.
Links, comments, etc - welcome.
Cheers,
-- Geert-Jan
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Division of Informatics WWW: http://www.cogsci.ed.ac.uk/~gj/
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Institute of Formal & Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Mathematics & Physics, Charles University
Prague (Czech Republic)
"A mathematician is a machine turning coffee into theorems"
-- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
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| (...) I don't think that would be practical using the standard SPO-256 synth chip, but you might have some luck with the onboard speaker and tones. I had a computer game once that would say various versions of "ouch" through the PC-speaker. If you (...) (24 years ago, 16-Dec-00, to lugnet.robotics)
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