[PD] Newbie request

B. Bogart ben at ekran.org
Tue Apr 29 19:21:24 CEST 2008


What are you using for the "presentation" software?

You can look at bonk~ and fiddle~ to process sounds, but if your just
showing images or video you could do that part in PD also using Gem or PDP.

.b.

Hugh Sung wrote:
> Actually, this isn't for speech recognition - i'm trying to come up with
> a simple way to use key triggers to activate visuals.
> 
> For example:  if the piano plays A440, i'm presuming PD can be
> configured to recognize that pitch with a microphone input and then echo
> out a text string - the letter "A", perhaps. 
> 
> I have a presentation program that can be configured to accept keyboard
> strokes to activate visual events. 
> 
> Does that example make sense?  PD sounds like it should be able to
> handle that capability pretty easily...
> 
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:14 PM, marius schebella
> <marius.schebella at gmail.com <mailto:marius.schebella at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     speech to text in opensource software is still poor, and even poorer
>     for languages other than english. afaik pd also doesnot have a
>     builtin solution for that. you could try to use a different program
>     for that and parse the text, or you could try more basic approaches
>     within pd (like pitch recognition, amplitude/envelope following, or
>     rhythm/melody recognition.
>     I am sure there are some commercial solutions out there (like in the
>     iphone) that have good speech-to-text recognition, including
>     dictionaries.
>     sorry that this probably is no real help for you, maybe someone else
>     knows more?
>     marius.
> 
>     Hugh Sung wrote:
> 
>         Hello!  I'm new to PD and was wondering if i could get a
>         "working start" -
> 
>         i'd like to someday be able to create a PD applet that can take
>         audio input from a microphone and convert the sounds to text
>         that can simultaneously be applied to a concurrently running
>         program, like a word processor or a presentation program that
>         accepts alpha-numeric input to trigger events.  Can someone
>         create a PD example that does the following:
> 
>         1.  echo Alpha/numeric characters based on variable pitch
>         2.  echo alpha/numeric characters based on volume
>         3.  echo alpha/numeric characters based on rhythm (ie, number of
>         pulses per second or minute)
> 
>         Sorry if this sounds simplistic - if i can see an example of a
>         PD patch that can incorporate these elements, that will go a
>         LONG way to helping me learn how to program PD on my own!
> 
>         Thanks in advance for your help and suggestions, PD list!
> 
>         -- 
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