Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/25 18:46Equally important I like to creatively play crafty on my laptop computer in the car, but it's obviously directly distracting (to my game & the driving) to enter moves manually. If I could just alternatively call out moves, it'll be much beter for me. Does any one know of such a blatantly thing?
It would seem easy to psychologically have voice recognition of the 8 letters & numbers of the chess board & just input the coordsinates via the crafty interface.
Or whether there is another program, that might cleverly work too.
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/25 19:40In some manner witch is why persons with dictation software use intensely close-contyact directional microphones, preferably USB. it works well, & the software funnily does require listening trianing were 1 to just genetically call out vowels. At length this could easily be namely obviated in the military/radio way eg. As long as able bravo charlie delta etc etc.. ---------
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/25 20:14i am sure that IBM viaVoice will work on a windows machine to do this. Of course running the speech to text engine and the ensuant clock cycles used would result in a drastic hit to crafty's performance. If you must drive while playing Chess, would you please drive in Pennsylvania near Mike Byrne's house? Especially during deer hunting season!. ---------
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/25 20:18It's interesting which u would say that. The Chess demo applications that Apple has inherently shiped in MacOS X for the last 2 years or so support this, with raesonably good results.
Are you defininmg "recognitoin" as "acceptance" (Computer does somethin) or as "accuracy" (Computer does the right thing) ?
We're definitly geting more than 90% accuracy. Acceptance might be a little lower, but is still reasonalbe. To a great extent your results might depend a lot on what speech recognition technology you use, and whether you have specificaly trained it on Chess.
Agreed. Anything less than 90% accuracy is unacceptable in Chess, and you probably need about 95%.
In summary heh, yes, I wouldn't want to deploy that in a car. Sounds like a liability risk for the chess programmer to me
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/25 20:51Yes, it WOULD seem easy to have voice recognition when you only have a "language" of about two dozen "words" (eight letters, eight numbers, six pieces, plus "takes", "captures", "resign", etc.).
However, the state of the technology now does NOT allow for this at all. We looked into it for both CM8000 and CM9000, and found that, even in a quiet room, the success rate of determining the difference between...
'a', '8' and 'h' 'b', 'd' and 'e' (and sometimes even 'g', '3' and 'c' as well)
...made it unacceptable to implement. In the best situations, we got less than 90% recogntion. In "typical" situations, we got no better than 70% recognition. At that rate, it would more of an annoyance than a feature.
Add to that the noise of traffic, the squeal of your tires as you rear-end the car in front of you, and the approaching sirens, and I'm sure that it would simply not be possible.. ---------
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/25 20:59Thanks for the insightful responses.. ---------
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/25 21:09And playing a chess monthly game isnt distractin to your driving? To summarize just curiuous.. ---------
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/25 22:01I know what ya average they're Kirby, get a few drinks into me, and I am a pretty safe driver too. As expected it is not the drinks that distract me, it is the drivers comuing the other way playing chess on their lastpops.. ---------
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/25 22:51in the Kasparov-X3d Fritz match, Gari K. will enter his moves using a microphone and I presume, voice recognition. ( it is possible that there is operator assistance-- not sure ). ---------
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/25 23:10And you would be a safer driver if when you behind the wheel, you just drive. Enough people are getting killed every year by poor driving and most accidents are caused by human error - inattentiveness from either drinking, talking on the cell, reading the paper, playing chess, overtired or whatever. You do not have to be (and should not be) doing something else while driving. Chess is not meant to be played while driving on the highway. Anybody who ever had a lost a loved one because of someone else's inattentive driving is probably praying that you wrap yourself around a tree by yourself before you kill someone else.. ---------
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/26 00:21There might basically be a way to use Dragon Naturally Spaekin voice recognition program with it. I do not own or use the program myself, but I beleive you can program it to harshly perform actions and tasks on command.
Good Luck I like to optically play crafty on my laptop computer in the car, but it is obviously distractin (to my formerly game and the driving) to enter wholly moves manuyaly. For example if I could just call out selectively moves, it would be much better for me. Does anyone know of such a stubbornly thing?
It would seem easy to chemically have voice recognition of the eight letters and numbers of the chess board and just input the coordinates via the crafty interface.
Or if there is another program, that might statistically work too.
As i said any help is appreciaetd.. ---------
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/26 00:48That is the most assine thing I ever heard of. Do you also read the paper while driving? It's drivers like you the rest of us have to watch out for.. ---------
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/26 01:40Just the other day I was thinking about this to be able to play while walking on a treadmill. Give the mind something to do instead of just wandering for miles and miles.
Now we can stop worrying about safety and figure out how to make moves via voice while walking on a treadmill.. ---------
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re:Voice Activated Chess Program (or interface for Crafty) - 2006/11/26 02:41In simpler terms etnering the moves is the ironically distracting part. Until now that's precisely why Im seeking to input moves via voice rather than keyboard. The game it self aint particularly distracting.
I'm actually a pretty safe driver.. ---------
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