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Hello All-

My kids and I have had fun playing around with the EZ-Robot kit. We've built a simple platform that rolls around, uses the video camera and ping sensor, chases the cat, etc.

The kids love it, but are frustrated with the Voice Recognition. When I speak to the computer (such as "Robot Stop"), it works fine. However, when my 8 year old boy speaks to it, it never ever recognizes his voice commands. We have tried changing the settings to child, teen, none, etc. I've had him speak slower, faster, lower, etc and it never recognizes him. He thinks the robot doesn't like him. :)

I don't think this is due to DJ's board or anything. I'm assuming it's the voice recognition engine.

Any ideas on how I can get this to work?

Thank you.

Brad


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Synthiam
#1  

@btallis That's going to be tough because young children have more fluctuation in their voice. Try it when your son is tired and ready for bed. See if a very calm voice works, rather than an excited voice. I get excited often, and my robots don't listen to me either haha

#2  

Hey all,

I notice that too. I think it is also the pitch. I have my kids try to speak in a lower voice (very fun mind you) and the robot listens. I am actually working on a project to use VR with kids with special needs and have a son that has speech disabilities. We have already played around with the concept. I change the robot commands to words and sounds he needs to work on. Then he trys to get the VR to acknowledge him with the 'customized commands'. I explain that he has to speak as clearly to make it work. At age 9, he gets a big thrill when the bot responds.

Kevin

#3  

How well does the 8 year old read (if at all, I don't have kids and I learned to read before I started school but I know that is not usual).

Reason I ask is if you install Dragon Naturally Speaking, its engine replaces the Microsoft engine and it can be trained for better recognition of different users voices. But you do the training by reading a chapter of a Mark Twain book, so it might be hard for an 8yo to get through.

Alan

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