Thanks for letting us in on the development process. Having lots of fun so far.
As far as the voice recognition goes, I do most of my work with db at night when everyone else is asleep, with headphones. Part of the appeal of this product is that I can be musical at times when the housemates/neighbors wouldn't take kindly to a lot of sound coming out of my space. I for one would probably never use it. Also db is sometimes running with another sound source going at the same time, and I would think this would cause some interference. Maybe just for the ego bit of having something respond to the voice command...? Save the energy.
Also, I have figured out how to import sounds into the kit, but don't know how to import an icon. What kind of file does the icon feature want?
Thanks again, and keep up the good work.
Ryk A. Groetchen windrag@earthlink.net
On 19,07,02 at 12:41 am -0400, Ryk Groetchen wrote:
of my space. I for one would probably never use it. Also db is sometimes running with another sound source going at the same time, and I would think this would cause some interference. Maybe just for the ego bit of having something respond to the voice command...? Save the energy.
Point taken, thanks for the viewpoint. Voice rec is a future feature idea that I won't be devoting any time to in the next little while, but I came across some code on how to do it, so it put the idea in my head. I can see a practical use for it ini a rehearsal setting, where you have doggie connected to a PA with a guitar amp turned up and you want to play guitar along with the drums, without having keep walking over to the computer (a situation that specifically inspired doggiebox actually).
Also, I have figured out how to import sounds into the kit, but don't know how to import an icon. What kind of file does the icon feature want?
Any image file format that quicktime recognizes (GIF, JPEG, TIFF, etc). In addition to the 'choose' button and file picker, you should just be able to drag one onto the image well.
-ben