Future Lifestyle Integrated with Speech Recognition 沈育德

Recall the Show Room.. Turn on / off lights, radio, TV, etc Choose TV programs What else can we do? Open the door without keys

Consider when you wanna … know what are the movies playing today check if you forgot to turn off the air conditioner before you left home ask when are the flights to LA this week and make a reservation make a phone call to an old friend whose number is missed unfortunately

A desirable future We wish to see, to hear, and to know all that we want Naturally Remember the phone number? Go to a specific place? Find the newspaper?

Natural Image Transferring To make it Speech Recognition Audio Playback Data Retrieval Automatically To Say To See To Hear To Know They’re all ready!!

This is my idea … To Provide an example to show that the technical ability we have now is already well enough to change our daily life for a great deal.

Goals To switch TV images from CATV, video, mailbox, and www browser as our wish To make a phone call or to query info. without walking toward the devices, such as PC ’ s and telephones To control or to get the status of lights and fans, nearby or far away

Background Computer Image Data Status Control TV WWW TEL Light Remote Computer Cable video fan Speech

Tools Metaglue X10 or PLC Speech Recognition Simple Windows programs, ex:dialer, IE Digital TV Full-Duplex modem card

Tools X10 or PLC Speech Recognition Simple Windows programs, ex:dialer, IE Digital TV Full-Duplex modem card Metaglue

Metaglue? Metaglue, developed by MIT, provides a platform that components in an intelligent environment (IE)can thus communicate with one another in order to coordinate their actions. can be low-level controller for devices, such as can also be high-level agents, such as meeting management applications projectors

Tools X10 or PLC Speech Recognition Simple Windows programs, ex:dialer, IE Digital TV Full-Duplex modem card For computers to communicate with each other so that user can control devices far away Metaglue

Tools Metaglue X10 or PLC Speech Recognition Simple Windows programs, ex:dialer, IE Digital TV Full-Duplex modem card

X10? X10 is used to control simple devices, such as lights. Difference between PLC : 1. Controlling 32 or even more devices at one time 2. Remote control 3. Turning the lights lighter or darker gradually

Tools Metaglue X10 or PLC Speech Recognition Simple Windows programs, ex:dialer, IE Digital TV Full-Duplex modem card To control fans, lights, etc

Tools Metaglue X10 or PLC Speech Recognition Simple Windows programs, ex:dialer, IE Digital TV Full-Duplex modem card Constant recording time and different keyword data for each function

Tools Metaglue X10 or PLC Speech Recognition Simple Windows programs, ex:dialer, IE Digital TV Full-Duplex modem card To make a phone call, query data on the web, and so on

Tools Metaglue X10 or PLC Speech Recognition Simple Windows programs, ex:dialer, IE Digital TV Full-Duplex modem card So that all images are available not only on the computer screens

Tools Metaglue X10 or PLC Speech Recognition Simple Windows programs, ex:dialer, IE Digital TV Full-Duplex modem card Make it possible to talk to somebody on a phone without dialing or holding a handset

Reference Nicholas Hanssens, Ajay Kulkarni, Rattapoom Tchida, and Tyler Horton, “ Building Agent-Based Intelligent Workspaces”, 2002.