Voice Recognition and Windows 7

[Neuropotential]

Hello Experts, 

I read few posts about using voice recognition and LabVIEW. I must admit this is my first shot at such a project. My VI is already ready and works. All I want to do is activate my start button from my voice. Do you think this is possible this LabVIEW? 

I have read through 5 post when I search for voice recognition and windows 7 but it seems very confusing to me. Can someone summarize the steps for me? 

Thank you in advance.

[smercurio_fc]

Maybe what you should really consider doing is gesture recognition.

Voice recognition requires some sort of external program. LabVIEW in and of itself cannot do voice recognition - it's just a programming language. I don't know what posts you are referring to, but in the other thread where you posted a response jcarmody pointed out LVSpeak. Did you try that?

[Neuropotential]

I saw the video about LVSpeak on link below

https://decibel.ni.com/content/groups/labview-apis/blog/2009/11/19/labview-speak--programming-lv-thr...

I think its a great add on LabVIEW for visual programming. I will message the author but it isn't designed to activate some buttons when the program is running. I need the functionality close to that mentioned in gesture recognition link. But I don't I can get a Xbox or sophisticated camera tracking system. 

I thought Labview could use Windows' speech recognition capability to perform voice recognition. The below link shows in windows vista. I was hoping something would help me to do this in Windows 7

http://www.ni.com/swf/flv/labview/us/vista/vr/

[smercurio_fc]

I've seen that video before, though I never did find the VIs they used. That code is based on simply using .NET (specifically the System.Speech.Recognition namespace) as the interface between LabVIEW and the operating system's built-in speech recognition. Windows 7 has the same thing, so those same VIs should work in Windows 7. Maybe you can contact NI directly to see if they can provide the VIs.

A community example to use the System.Speech.Recognition classes can be found here: https://decibel.ni.com/content/docs/DOC-6865

[Neuropotential]

Thnaks for the link 🙂