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   From: "Mikael W. Bertelsen"    
   Subject: Re: Speech recognition in lieu of lab assistant?   
   Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:29:50 +0100   
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   On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:40:48 -0500, Roberto Waltman wrote:   
      
   >    
   > I'm currently busy writing a series of small test programs to exercise   
   > and debug the hardware of a new product under development.   
   >    
   > Running the programs requires me to frequently bother one of my   
   > colleagues to hold oscilloscope probes in particular places in the   
   > board being tested, (vias or pins on surface mounted devices, not test   
   > points where something could be attched easily), while I type a few   
   > commands, glance at the scope, type some more, ask him to move the   
   > probes somewhere else, etc.   
   >    
   > I wonder how difficult would be to add a speech recognition program so   
   > I could do all this by myself. The "understanding" requirements would   
   > be quite simple: identify one particular choice from a small   
   > pre-defined list of options. (Either what test program to run or what   
   > function inside a particular program).   
   >    
   > Easy or long winged research project? The platform is Linux. (Ubuntu   
   > at this time)   
      
   As I understand it, you write some test program yourself, and I assume you   
   run them from a shell since you said "... while I type a few commands ...".   
      
   My question is then, why not write a short shell script that will run the   
   commands with an appropriate delay between them? You mentioned that it   
   will only be a short list of options, which again point to using a shell   
   script.   
      
   You did not mention if you have considered shell scripting, so I would   
   just through in my 10 cents...   
      
   /Mike   
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