Hardware Requirements
For speech recognition:
- Pentium II PC 300Mhz or faster, RAM 64 or more etc, 10Mb Ethernet adapter.
- To drive the CAVE application: any Unix-based system capable of running CAVE applications.
Software Requirements
- IBM Via Voice Pro Speech Recognition Software
- CAVE Virtual Reality library
- CAVERNsoft G2 Tele-Immersion library
Instructions for running the demo application
Follow these steps to setup CAVERNsoft Voice Recognition
This setup assume that CAVERNsoft is already install
Via Voice
- Install Via Voice on PC if not installed.
- Setup the microphone as Via Voice instructed.
- For best performace each user must create a personal voide Model.
CAVERNsoft Java Interface
- Download CAVERNsoft Java Interface to PC
- Install the CAVERNsoft Java Interface
- Make a directory CJavaIntface
- Unjar the CJavaInterface.jar file in CJavaIntface directory.
- Type "jar vxf CJavaInterface.jar " on the command line
- It will make lib, include, bin directory
-To run it go to the bin directory and type "cavern" on the command line
CAVERN_voiceRecog_c usage
- Include CAVERN_voiceRecog_c in to you c++ program i.e. Sample
- Compile and link the program using Makefile
- Sample program use CAVE Simulator, in this case, on SGI the left button of the mouse will put the CAVERN_voiceRecog_c object to sleep by setting status field to 0 and will send a signal to Java Server on the PC to sleep. Right button will set the status field to 1 and will send a signal to Java Server on the PC, to start.
Note: Make sure to change the server name in you program or in Simple program (voiceSample.c++).Customizing for your own applications
- Changing the grammar File