Advice on programming

lorraineanna87 · 19 Feb 2008 at 18:48

I'm a student at Reading University and have come up with an idea that incorporates speech recognition software into your PDA.
The idea is to enable the user to talk to their device while on the move to create a shopping list, make notes on a memo pad, or be able to write speeches (for example). This could then be saved in a .txt format so that the user can translate the files back to their computer should they wish.

I am looking to find out how long it would take/how much it would cost to produce such software; and also how much it costs to put this software on a CD which can be copied and sold.
So any contributions would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you.

Inquisitor · 19 Feb 2008 at 18:55

Speech recognition is very complicated (and mathematical), so you'd have to find some third party library to do that part for you. If you can get that part sorted, though, it should be feasible.

What year are you in out of interest?

lorraineanna87 · 19 Feb 2008 at 19:02

Well I'm doing a Business Management course so there's no way I'd be able to do it myself! lol. I know that there's already a program you can get which means you can dictate to your computer, so thought it might be easier to use that software and put it on PDAs which operate a Windows OS maybe?
I'm in my second year.

tonyyeb · 19 Feb 2008 at 21:14

You can already do most of the above with Microsoft Voice Command for Windows Mobile devices:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/voicecommand/default.mspx

Not sure about Symbian or iPhone.

Shoseki · 19 Feb 2008 at 22:34

Bah, speech recognition was the imba software that never materialised. It accidently interpretes "add X to shopping list" as "delete database" and there we go...

Eriedor · 19 Feb 2008 at 23:02

lorraineanna87 said:
Well I'm doing a Business Management course so there's no way I'd be able to do it myself! lol. I know that there's already a program you can get which means you can dictate to your computer, so thought it might be easier to use that software and put it on PDAs which operate a Windows OS maybe?
I'm in my second year.

Do you do business management and IT?

I'm studying Cybernetics at Reading.

What you want to do can be done using readily available packages, no major development required.

LeperousDust · 19 Feb 2008 at 23:16

Shoseki said:
Bah, speech recognition was the imba software that never materialised. It accidently interpretes "add X to shopping list" as "delete database" and there we go...

Reminds me of this