I downloaded the Kinect SDK and the idea is to get it to work alongside Denise.  I have seen the creator of CastleOS use his CastleOS system plus the Kinect and successfully got the speech recognition to work from 25 feet away.  A feat that is very impressive.

So far I have not found any good tutorial on how to install and use the Kinect SDK with voice recognition.  I know I need to get it up and running before I try and intertwine it with Denise.  Do any of you have any suggestions on how I can get this to work.  I have tried and have not been successful.  So far I have the correct drivers but I dont know where to go from there.

Do I use the Kinect Studio or something else?

Once I get this running I will eventually try to use the Kinect with Denise and her internal Dragon Naturally Speaking speech recognition.  I just need help getting it started.

Anyone?

=> http://meta-guide.com/videography/best-kinect-speech-videos/

=> http://meta-guide.com/videography/100-best-kinect-voice-videos/

=> http://meta-guide.com/videography/100-best-kinect-sdk-videos/

Dom, I don’t have a specific answer for your question; however, you might find some clues on my quick and dirty Meta Guide webpages, above.

Dominique - Dec 29, 2013:

I have seen the ... system ... and successfully got the speech recognition to work from 25 feet away.  A feat that is very impressive.

Spoiler Alert
Final warning before revealing a magic trick for speech recognition.

Lipstick mics, may be used create that impressive effect…
Since they clip on, and go with you anywhere in the room.

Dominique - Dec 29, 2013:

So far I have not found any good tutorial on how to install and use the Kinect SDK with voice recognition.  I know I need to get it up and running before I try and intertwine it with Denise.  Do any of you have any suggestions on how I can get this to work.  I have tried and have not been successful.  So far I have the correct drivers but I dont know where to go from there.

Do I use the Kinect Studio or something else?

Which Kinect SDK are you using, and which Kinect (original, v2, new xbox1 ver?)?

I found that with the original kinect, they only way to get any kind of program to work was to find an example somewhere like “Coding4Fun Kinect Turret” (which I used to have a physical talking head track a subject).

You can search codeplex for “kinect” also… good luck- hope you know how to navigate .NET, C#, wpf and winforms… [I am going to have .NET C# coding nightmare tonight for sure!]

∞Pla•Net - Dec 29, 2013:

Dominique - Dec 29, 2013:

I have seen the ... system ... and successfully got the speech recognition to work from 25 feet away.  A feat that is very impressive.

Spoiler Alert
Final warning before revealing a magic trick for speech recognition.

Lipstick mics, may be used create that impressive effect…
Since they clip on, and go with you anywhere in the room.

No, he claims to only use the Kinect

http://youtu.be/ksiJWthOxY0

Here he is on a TV show called EPIC, and it shows his entire home wired with Kinect.

http://youtu.be/_NzVyJHk5qw

Carl B - Dec 29, 2013:

Which Kinect SDK are you using, and which Kinect (original, v2, new xbox1 ver?)?

I found that with the original kinect, they only way to get any kind of program to work was to find an example somewhere like “Coding4Fun Kinect Turret” (which I used to have a physical talking head track a subject).

You can search codeplex for “kinect” also… good luck- hope you know how to navigate .NET, C#, wpf and winforms… [I am going to have .NET C# coding nightmare tonight for sure!]

I am using latest Kinect SDK 1.8 (if I remember right) plus 360 version of Kinect so I believe its first gen not v2 or XB1.

Dominique - Dec 30, 2013:

I am using latest Kinect SDK 1.8 (if I remember right) plus 360 version of Kinect so I believe its first gen not v2 or XB1.

What language will you develop this in?  C#, C++, VB?  Kinect is MS, so I do believe you are limited to their suite of supported development software.  Fortunately, Visual Studio has a free version, so you CAN do development of an application with what you already have (assuming you have a system running Win7 or greater).

While the boundaries of speech recognition are wide, the practical implementation (in my experience) is quite limited- by ambient noise, other voices, etc.  Under ideal conditions (little ambient noise, only one person speaking, very good sound input from using lapel mic) it works amazing well.  Rapid degradation occurs with any of the above mentioned obscurators though.

With that said, Kinect has the best (in the $100 range) system going at the moment for both tracking and segmenting, or ‘skeletalizing’ objects and then linking this info to some programmatic events (like a chat bot!).  One thing I have not fooled around with is facial feature recognition, which would be ideal for a chat bot interface (where the bot could respond to the facial expressions of the user).