Today morning (Sunday, December 14, 2008 5:45 AM) while searching for some (MCA) project topic for my friends I came across one interesting topic. Concept of project was using open source software and microphone-enabled laptops to listen for specific tonal sequences and run commands.
Sounds interesting!!!
For many years, computer users have been able to run processor-intensive speech recognition applications executing commands based on voice processing and requiring extensive configuration. While recent advances in processing power and algorithms have brought about user-independent voice recognition with reduced error rates, excellent opportunities exist for a simple tone pattern-based recognition system.

Using the recently released sndpeek program to do the sophisticated processing, we will run a simple Perl program to allow for the easy generation of tonal codes. A Perl script will be presented to allow the user to customize the tonal input and detection environment.

For more details visit: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/os-whistle/index.html

Tags: innovative projects, sndpeek program, voice command programming