Is it possible to access the actual speech recording, rather than the transcoded speech text from Mirror API
This is not currently available in the Mirror API.
If this is something you need, file an enhancement request and include a description of what you plan to use it for.
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Is it possible to restrict and AVS device (a device running Alexa) to a single skill? So if I built an AI skill and have it running on a device, is it possible to keep the experience inside the custom skill so I don't have to keep saying Alexa, open
One trick you can do with AVS is to prepend every single request with a sound clip equivalent to: "ask to ..." It's definitely a hack, but I was able to use it with some success.
See my write-up here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/adding-context-alexa-will-blaschko-ma
The relevant parts (in case the link goes away).
Regular voice commands don't carry my extra information about the
user, but I wanted to find a way to tack on metadata to the voice
commands, and so I did just that--glued it right onto the end of the
command and updated my intents to know what the new structure would
be.
...
In addition to facial recognition, voice recognition could help
identify users, but let's not stop there. Any amount of context can be
added to a request based on available local data.
“Find frozen yogurt nearby" could silently become “Alexa open Yelp and
find frozen yogurt near 1st and Pine, Seattle” using some built in
geolocation in the device (phone, in this case).
I also use something similar in my open source Android Alexa library to send prerecorded commands: https://github.com/willblaschko/AlexaAndroid
I think you are looking for AWS Lex which allows you to write Alexa like skills without the rest of Alexa feature set.
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lex/latest/dg/what-is.html
in short: i have some audio files in my local sqlitedatabse and want to play with with the native media player from android.
reffered to the documentation i can play an audio either by placing my audio file on the sd card or by streaming from server or by an URI.
There is no way to play an audio file by giving an byte array to the media player.
so my solution would be to build an CONTENTPROVIDER which lets my media player access the audio file in the database via an URI. I came up with that idea through this tutorial
http://www.vogella.com/articles/AndroidSQLite/article.html
Is this possible? Are there better ways to implement my issue?
If I understand your question correctly, you are proposing creating an artificial URL that you are then passing to the android system to be read, and you supply the data backing the URL by reading it from SQLite. That will probably work, and it solves some issues with content decoding, but it requires the creation of awkward URLs and sockets within the system. All that might not be the most reliable or efficient way to go.
The alternative is to decode the data yourself into PCM, and supply it to Android via an Audio Track. This would be superior because you aren't trying to create a hacked (and artificial) URL just to pipe a stream of data through, but it may require you to parse the data yourself and convert it to PCM. Depending on what formats you have in your database, this may be difficult and not worth it because Android libraries for these kinds of conversions are not as accessible. So, which way is best depends on your goals, but I think those are your two options.
I have to use BinaryResponseParser in my application.I dont know what it is the use of BinaryResponseParser. As I searched in web I got one information that "A BinaryResponseParser that sends callback events rather then build a large response"
Here what is the call back events in the response.Can any one clearly explain what is the call back event and how it was used in Solr.
If am not using BinaryResponseParser in my application means , what will be the effect ?
BinaryResponseParser is a parser for Solr responses serialized in a binary format as opposed to json or xml. The class has one method that can be of use to you (v. 3.6.x):
public NamedList<Object> processResponse(InputStream body, String encoding).
The advantage of using binary serialization is that your response size will be much smaller. This can be critical for the performance of live IR systems like Lucene/Solr - just imagine an auto-suggest service, which has to provide a list of suggestions for a user for every key-stroke. The response must be dellivered to the user bellow 100ms. If you don't use binary encoding, your response will be larger and consequently will take a bit longer to transfer over HTTP.
I suggest you take a look at SolrJ - a Java client for Solr that will possibly solve most of your problems.
Any silverlight text to speech engine available now? I am looking for very simple text to speech engine which needs to read out numbers.
I dont want to rely on any web service.In worstcase I will record some voices for numbers and stitch them together.
Any pointers are highly appreciated. My application need not work on MAC or linux.
There is another option, which doesn't involve ActiveX or Silverlight 4 COM interop. You simply have your Silverlight application send the text to a WCF service which will convert the text to a WAV stream and then decode the stream returned by the service and place it in a MediaStreamSource for playback in Silverlight. I wrote a blog post on it and it includes sample code.
http://www.brianlagunas.com/index.php/2010/03/07/text-to-speech-in-silverlight-using-wcf
Converting text to speech using speech SDK consists of a few simple steps. The following code shows the important pieces in performing text to speech.
dynamic textToSpeech = AutomationFactory.CreateObject("Sapi.SpVoice");
textToSpeech.Volume = book.Volume;
textToSpeech.Rate = book.SpeekSpeed;
textToSpeech.Voice = book.speeker;
textToSpeech.Speak(book.Content);
SpVoice is the class that is used for text to speech conversion. The speak method takes in a string that needs to be spoken.
code sample: http://funducodes.blogspot.com/p/silver-light.html
You will probably have to build your own for a truely cross compatible application.
Silverlight 3: Use active X to call the Microsoft Speech SDK. (not recommended at all)
Silverlight 4: Use COM integration to call the Microsoft Speech SDK.
These will work on windows only OS.
Of course, with all these suggestions, the underlying flaw is in the speech rendering engine itself - every one of these sample results in a nasty clicking at the start of the speech, I'm thinking this is garbage collection on the stream.
Would be nice to finally have something cross platform that can create realistic speech.
I am not holding my breath.
Suppose there is a Silverlight streaming video player on a random web site. How can I intercept the video stream and for example save it to file - i.e. the real source of the file.
I know some of the sites embed the source in tag - or at least that was the case with Flash. But sometimes, players are smarter than that and call some logic via web service. It is still possible to figure everything out by analyzing the .dll with reflector, but that is hardcore! Every player may have a different logic, so I figured out it would be easier to just get the current stream somehow.
Any thoughts?
Ooook! Got me an answer that could be used as a nice workaround. With the use of fiddler I was able to capture the traffic and figure out what's going on. Now I'm happily watchin the same video as before only using the uber feature of WMP that lets me play videos faster.