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Re: Is there a voice controlled TV (universal) remote for handicapped people?
« Reply #26 on: January 23, 2025, 03:42:29 pm »
Simple is good.

Low-tech solutions are awesome!

I like the idea of just 5(3) buttons:

POWER
VOLUME UP/DOWN
CHANNEL UP/DOWN

The volume and channels are limited to what the user wants (only the channels the person likes can be selected)

If the user is hard of hearing, the volume should probably have only a couple available levels:

Earsplitting, less earsplitting, normal(to prevent those who are not hard of hearing from becoming so), and mute.


Voice recognition seems a bit overkill.

Most people eho are diabled and hard of hearing are not familiar with voice-activation.


Plus, there are a lot of problems with voice control.

Imagine this scenario:

What person says: "I turn on the TV every day and watch CP24."
What the remote hears: "Turn on the TV."

AI ain't as intelligent as people think.

Sometimes, it is really smart; other times, it is SO stupid!
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Re: Is there a voice controlled TV (universal) remote for handicapped people?
« Reply #27 on: January 23, 2025, 03:44:25 pm »
Any speech recognition solution for German will be sub-par.

All the work goes into English (or possibly Chinese, etc.)
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Re: Is there a voice controlled TV (universal) remote for handicapped people?
« Reply #28 on: January 23, 2025, 05:17:41 pm »
Any speech recognition solution for German will be sub-par.

All the work goes into English (or possibly Chinese, etc.)
It depends a lot on the nature of the language. 25 years ago almost all effort was on English and Mandarin. However, I found the best reliability to be with the Cantonese recognisers, which had only had a small effort put into them. I'm a native English speaker, and a second language rather poor Cantonese speaker with a terrible accent, and I had much better results with the Cantonese recognisers.
 


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Re: Is there a voice controlled TV (universal) remote for handicapped people?
« Reply #30 on: January 23, 2025, 06:44:20 pm »
What person says: "I turn on the TV every day and watch CP24."
What the remote hears: "Turn on the TV."
You can use a mic activation button that activates the system only while the button is pressed.
That button can also mute the TV.
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Re: Is there a voice controlled TV (universal) remote for handicapped people?
« Reply #31 on: January 23, 2025, 06:49:20 pm »
Any speech recognition solution for German will be sub-par.
What about self-learning systems?
 

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Re: Is there a voice controlled TV (universal) remote for handicapped people?
« Reply #32 on: January 23, 2025, 07:03:11 pm »
How about something entirely mechanical ?
One big button and an industrial grade joystick ( with mechanical switches ) wired to the original or a cheap universal remote control .

Button : on/off
Up/down : channel up/down
Left/right : volume up/down

Super easy to make . . .  :popcorn:

This is a real self-learning system - it knows what to do when it is fully assembled . . .  :-DD
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Re: Is there a voice controlled TV (universal) remote for handicapped people?
« Reply #33 on: January 23, 2025, 09:14:12 pm »
A camera with hand gestures detection would be interesting.
Basically you 'sign' the command you want.

It has the advantage of not being audio based so wont get confused with TV audio, doesn't need to mute it, and detection could be locked down to only see you signing when seated in a specific TV watching chair/sofa
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Re: Is there a voice controlled TV (universal) remote for handicapped people?
« Reply #34 on: January 23, 2025, 10:13:26 pm »
How about something entirely mechanical ?
One big button and an industrial grade joystick ( with mechanical switches ) wired to the original or a cheap universal remote control .

Button : on/off
Up/down : channel up/down
Left/right : volume up/down

Super easy to make . . .

Interesting.

A camera with hand gestures detection would be interesting.
Basically you 'sign' the command you want.

It has the advantage of not being audio based so wont get confused with TV audio, doesn't need to mute it, and detection could be locked down to only see you signing when seated in a specific TV watching chair/sofa

Also interesting.
 

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Re: Is there a voice controlled TV (universal) remote for handicapped people?
« Reply #35 on: January 27, 2025, 08:15:37 pm »
Any speech recognition solution for German will be sub-par.

All the work goes into English (or possibly Chinese, etc.)
It depends a lot on the nature of the language. 25 years ago almost all effort was on English and Mandarin. However, I found the best reliability to be with the Cantonese recognisers, which had only had a small effort put into them. I'm a native English speaker, and a second language rather poor Cantonese speaker with a terrible accent, and I had much better results with the Cantonese recognisers.


Cool!

That's so strange!


Perhaps the phonemes in Cantonese are easily interpreted by a computer and cheapo mic.

Or maybe the people the machine learned from have the same accent and broken Cantonese as you do!
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