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Re: New member; a few questions ...
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Sat, 16 Dec 2000 22:09:44 GMT
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Tim Hatch <vbq@myrealbox./avoidspam/com>
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> (a) Has anyone ever hooked up a speech synthesis chip (hardware) to a
> legobot?
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 could figure out how that was done, you might be able
to give the 'bot a simple vocabulary.
Tim
----- Original Message -----
From: Geert-Jan Kruijff <gj@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To: <lego-robotics@crynwr.com>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 8:21 AM
Subject: New member; a few questions ...
>
> 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:
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> (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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> Prague (Czech Republic)
>
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> -- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
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>
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