Python can be used together with a speech recognition/generation engine to create voice-enabled applications. Best choice of three approaches examined is dragonfly (http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly/). For videos, see http://bit.ly/JohnGravesPythonNoHands or http://bit.ly/JohnGravesWiki.

1. Voice Interaction in Python John Graves [email_address] - Background - Listening Demo - Talking Demo - Code - Resources

2. Voice Interaction in Python John Graves [email_address] - Background - Listening Demo - Talking Demo - Code - Resources

3. Voice Interaction in Python John Graves [email_address] - Background - Listening Demo - Talking Demo - Code - Resources

5. Voice Telephone

6. Text Chat Google/YouTube

7. E-mail ???

8. Print/Web Comments

10. DEVICES: One Billion Cell Phones Sold in 2009

11. STANDARDS: VoiceXML3.0 – see www.w3.org/Voice/ for “Voice Browser” Activity

12. Speech Recognition in Windows

13. VoiceXML 2.0 Sample from W3C <?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?> <vxml version=&quot;2.0&quot;> <menu> <prompt> Say one of: <enumerate/> </prompt> <choice next=&quot;http://www.sports.example/start.vxml&quot;> Sports </choice> <choice next=&quot;http://www.weather.example/intro.vxml&quot;> Weather </choice> <choice next=&quot;http://www.news.example/news.vxml&quot;> News </choice> <noinput> Please say one of <enumerate/></noinput> </menu> </vxml>

14. Python Listening Demo

15. Python Talking Demo

16. Python Code

17. Resources Inigo Surguy http://www.67bricks.com Speech recognition in Windows using Python http://www.surguy.net/articles/speechrecognition.xml Michael Gundlach Python speech module http://pypi.python.org/pypi/speech/0.5.1 Christo Butcher Dragonfly: Python-based speech recognition framework http://code.google.com/p/dragonfly/ Getting started with VoiceXML 2.0 http://www.w3.org/Voice/Guide/ Don't miss Brian Thorne's talk on Computer Vision at 4 pm http://nz.pycon.org/talks/talk/18/ http://pycam.googlecode.com

18. Resources Full copy of presentation including voice overs and videos: http:// bit.ly / JohnGravesWiki