This has been brought up before is some threads, but has come up again recently. I promised that I would make a post about this so, here it goes...
There have been some posts where people have asked to be able to use Dragon Naturally Speaking (DNS) with ARC. To do this, there would have to be a separate application installed which would handle this unless there is a change to ARC itself to allow this to happen. To build an application outside of ARC to allow this would require some programming and a $2000.00 investment in the DNS developer software. To use this new tool, you would have to launch a separate application on your computer to handle speech recognition, which would pass the spoken text back to a variable in ARC. You would have to develop scripts in ARC to handle what to do with this spoken text. Another application would also need to be written that would allow the user to train DNS.
The idea of crowd funding has been brought up a few times in the past, but always in other threads that not everyone might have seen. I would like to suggest crowd funding of this idea again. It would be great if we could crowd fund the purchase of DNS Developer for EZ-Robot to add the ability to choose either DNS or Windows Speech Recognition engine directly within ARC. If that is not possible and there were enough people willing to crowd fund the purchase of DNS Developer, I would be willing to develop the 3rd party apps that could be used to handle what was described above.
This is to see how much interest there is in doing this. Please post if you would be interested in donating to this project or to donating to see if we can get this feature added directly into ARC.
One important thing to remember here. This path would only enable DNS for the applications above. It would not enable it on every application outside of these. In other words, you wouldn't have all of DNS on your machine, but only for use with ARC.
Boris don't forget Robot-Doc from the first page......
Right, so 60% to 70%. We might make it. I wouldn't be able to put in my part until July 31st. My wife and a friend started a business the other day and needed to get equipment so this month is tight.
@Robot-Doc ... sorry i did´t really know if you also want, but for this here a update:
Like i count we are still now 6 Supporters
d.cochran 20% Steve G Dave Schulpius fxrtst Robort-Doc and me Rentaprinta (Boris) 15%
So i think we are @ 75 % to the goal.
Let´s see who comes!
Boris
@david
no problem 01.08 it´s not far away!
Boo
Ya gotta love the Germans. Boris, you rock. I love your enthusiasm.
Everyone, I checked GoFundMe's fees. Here they are in Canada and the USA: GoFundMe - 5% + We Pay - 2.9% = 7.9% total.
So based on a 2K price tage we'er looking at $158 USD in fees. Since we wouldn't have to buy the DNS software I'd be willing to cover these fees along with my original $200 pledge. So the fees are not an issue now.
I think if we have a few more people say they are interested (no need to reveal how much you want to pledge) we should set up an account. We can run the fund raiser a few months and see if we can drum up the extra support. Worst that happens is we don't meet the goal and everyone gets their money back.
However we first need to see if EZ Robot is interested in this. Hopefully DJ will read this and chime in with any thoughts on EZ Robot being willing to do the work if we get the developer software for them. He may want to talk off line about this to either David C or me. DJ, If so please drop either one of us a line. There may be more going on in the background that we don't know about like copyright issues. They may be getting into legal crap that they don't want to deal with. They may not even have the resources available to work on this. eek
Definitely. DJ has first option to do this. I would love to see him say he would do it. It is an important piece of this equation. We will know more once he chimes in.
@dave
thanx for your compliment.
For the raiser fund... i hope we don´t need some or few month to get the money for the DNS licence. I hope and it must be realistic to get everything cleared until the 01.08 where David has time.
a good plan is today, not a perfect next week!
And i think DJ will be/must be interessted, because his customers (like me and you and the other guys) like this idea.
And a good firm is everytime listing to their costumers!
Boris
Here is my 2 cents worth, I hope it is helpful to Richard and WBS00001 as it explains my thoughts on the adding DNS to ARC.
In my opinion adding DNS capability to ARC would be a huge plus addition for EZ-Robot!
I have been using the latest Dragon SR (DNS:13) for a year now and I can speak (dictate) a letter or document with around 99% accuracy. I first started to use Dragon (DNS:10) in 2008 in my Ai (ARIEL), here is a video of it in operation, look closely and you can see the DNS speech input box (top left corner) displaying the words that I am saying in real time.
youtu.be/cV5AJfGaEM4
The older AIMEC:3 and AIMEC:4 robots used DNS11 with approaching 100% accuracy. The EZ:1 robot currently uses Microsoft engine 8 as the robot is controlled by an EZ-B. But I still get really good accuracy with engine 8 in grammar mode (dictation mode is not so good, but grammar mode is what you use with ARC), but I use a really good wireless mic that just clips to my shirt pocket or collar. This works so well that I can even control music volumes etc as the SNR (signal to noise ratio) is so good with regards to my voice. I use the Revolabs xTAG its pricey but you have to pay if you want this level of performance.
www.revolabs.com/products/product-line/xtag-usb
Note - grammar mode is much easier for the SR engine as it only has to compare incoming speech with existing grammar files - in dictation mode you can say anything and it does not require pre-programmed grammar files.
I would also happily donate to this great cause, so please count me in.
Tony