John, as long as you choose your words carefully the reliability is
pretty good. You have control over some of it's recognition parameters.
I have the newer version of the Voice Direct 364 module with
Continuous Listening. It's around $50. They didn't have the current
development system when I bought my module but if I could afford it, I
would have gone that route. Still, it's easy to use the module as-is.
The $50 kit comes with a mic, switches, etc, to use the module in the
Stand-alone mode. The more advanced Slave mode uses an SPI-style interface.
Note, "pretty good" above is very subjective and you need to take a hard
look at the environment you want to operate in.

   - Tom

At 09:34 05-09-01 -0700, John Waters wrote:
>Hi Tom,
>
>I tried something similar many years back, it is a box hooked up with a PC,
>it can do voice recognition after some training, but the result is not that
>good, it is useful only as a toy. How is that "Voice Direct 364", do you
>think it can be used for some serious purpose? I want to try its performance
>but it seems that you need their development kit (not cheap) to make the
>module work, is that right?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
>John
>
>>    I'm using the Voice Direct 364 in a PIC-based DAQ system and I want to
>>use it with my robot. So far I've tested the basic stand-alone modes and
>>most of the slave mode. I did have some trouble with the CL mode saving
>>it's
>>template (SD mode was fine) but it fixed itself... If you haven't studied
>>the slave mode yet, check out the extensive user vocabulary for speach
>>output. Some of the words and phrases sound a little strange but they are
>>still very useful.


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Tom Handley
New Age Communications
Since '75 before "New Age" and no one around here is waiting for UFOs ;-)

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