Is there any limitation for speaking words per month/week with free nuance API version in Pepper Robot?
TTS and ASR is unlimited, but using the ASR Remote Engine (wildcard *) may be limited. I think the limit is 100-200 request per day but I cannot find any source of this.
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I am looking for a plc system for our brewery. I would like buy a second hand PLC with the necessary modules. I have seen the AB SLC500 1747-L542 cpu for a good price (120$) with a lot of modules, but I dont know, if it is new enough for a project. (Windows compatibilty, programming environment, etc)
Should I buy it, or it would be a bad decision? If it is not a good decision, what do you suggest for me? I have seen Siemens S7-200, Siemens ET 200 and others too.
Thank you.
If you want to go cheap, use something from automation direct or ez automation. You not only need a CPU, you need I/O cards, rack, power supply, software & HMI. That's going to be a ton of money up front. With the two vendors I mentioned, they bundle most of that for a much lower cost of entry.
Yes this is certainly new enough to use. However, you will need an entire rack. For instance, a ethernet, devicenet, or io cards to connect the processor to your components.
Also as Bill J mentioned, AB may be industry standard in America, but it is expensive. Depending on your brewery's income it my not be smart. Siemens is the same idea.
Quote from AB's website
Our Bulletin 1747 SLC™ 500 control platform is used for a wide variety of applications. Rockwell Automation has announced that some SLC 500 Bulletin numbers are discontinued and no longer available for sale. Customers are encouraged to migrate to our newer CompactLogix™ 5370 or 5380 control platforms.
link to website
So I would say, for a new project, no it's not worth bying in 2017.
Depending on how many points you need to use I would recommend going with the CompactLogix or MicroLogix from AB. The lowest CompactLogix is my favorit for all around tasks, I have standardized the whole plant to use it as the lowest level PLC for the simplest machines. Built in you get Ethernet capability, 16 inputs, and 16 outputs. You can expand the controller via different modules (up to 8 for the lowest PN), that can include additional discrete IO, analog modules etc.
Do not use a SLC as they are obsolete and even though you can get it to work without much trouble this is not a good choice for a new project.
It is hard to say what you need exactly without knowing the specifics of your project so I would recommend using the "integrated automation builder" (a free download from AB) to properly size a controller for your needs.
For voice activated apps(virtual assistants) like (aivc for android ), which uses nuance speech recognition, which API is used to to get the answer to the user's question. FOr example, if the user types "what is your name" the ap gives an answer.
Do we have a standard algorithm which understands the user's query and gets a probable answer.
Nuance has several speech recognition platforms/products, it depends on which one you use. For your situation, probably start out with Nuance Mix, it'a self-service speech recognition platform targeted for mobile developers. There's also Nina too which is a more full service offering from Nuance.
I am developing a software which needs a fingerprint ID to get access or login. Meanwhile, I can't work with Arduino and fingerprint sensors, because There is no mushc time ahead. I am thinking about using the integrated-Fingerfrint of my laptop to get Finger's ID. Is it possible to do such operation?
The short answer is yes.
The long answer is you will need a lot of things to do so. The first is you will need to find out which fingerprint scanner you have in your laptop. Then you will need to find out what SDK's that device manufacturer offers. Most will provide a image acquisition API that you can use to capture images. Most of those SDKs are going to have a C api that you will need to wrap in PInvoke calls.
Once you have images you will need an algorithm. There is a chance that the Device manufacturer sells an SDK that includes an algorithm, if not there are other companies that just build algorithms that you can purchase.
NIST also has an algorithm that is free, but it only has a C interface so again, you will have to do some work.
You might want to checkout https://www.fulcrumbiometrics.com. They support a large number of device manufactures and may be able to help you find what you are looking for.
Sorry if this is a repeat question, but I didn't see it anywhere.
I'm working on a Mac program that will take voice commands, and NSSpeechRecognizer isn't quite doing it for me.
I want something a little more dynamic so I can set alarms, make dates, give more natural commands, etc.
Every open source speech engine I've found is tailored toward iOS. Do openears/vocalkit etc. still work just as fine for Mac programs?
Speech recognition is exceptionally non-trivial. The engines that are free are free for a reason. If you expect dictation in any amount (like an alarm label), you're out of luck. There are reasons Siri requires an entire data center. The open source packages available won't get you much further than simple telephone auto-attendants.
Unless you have an extensive statistics background and free time, I'd recommend that you pursue licensing a commercial library or server implementation.
pocket sphinx from Carnegie Melon is about the only option
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/
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I would like to develop a mobile application that is able to access all the features of the mobile device it runs on (camera, files, phone and network connectivity). I intend to build a series of applications that each have a specific function to perform, rather than a single application with a large feature set. My programming background is C, C# and web applications.
What would be the best tool set to use to do this? I have looked at using the NetBeansIDE to create a Java ME applications using LWUIT - this looks promising, but what are the caveat's?
I want to target the largest universe of mobile devices possible.
J2ME is the way to go to reach the masses, in the consumer or the business market. From a consumer standpoint, most of the world's mobile phones support J2ME. From a business standpoint, most of the world's smart phones support J2ME.
Nokia owns a 40% share of the smart phone market (and the whole market) worldwide. Next in line is Blackberry with a 13% share. Both have standard implementations of J2ME on their devices (though Blackberry also has a proprietary version of Java as well). On top of this, most devices that run Windows Mobile come with a JVM as well (I developed a game recently that initially targetted the Sony Ericsson W810i and it ran flawlessly on my HTC Tilt's JVM). Add in the fact that Android has a Java SDK and the only segment you are really missing out on are the BREW only phones and the iPhone.
I'm not a huge backer of J2ME. I just know that every other mobile platform has disappeared from my life over the last 3 years as it just makes financial sense for companies to only target the J2ME segment of the industry.
You are facing the usual main issue of mobile development : targetting as many handsets as possible with only one programming language means using J2ME, which doesn't quite give you access to all the features of the handset.
Most open handsets will support J2ME but different phone manufacturers implement it in different ways and fragmentation is enourmous accross the board. Unfortunately, the majority of open handsets (the ones where you can install third-party applications) only allow you to develop in J2ME
The only good news is that your intent to only write small applications will provide large relief from fragmentation issues.
J2ME also has huge limitations in terms of file system access, complete lack of a telephony API, very poor interaction with the system applications management...
In order to get full features, you always need to use the native technology of the open platform you are targetting, be it Android, iPhone, the several variants of Symbian OS, Brew, Windows Mobile or Palm OS handsets. Each of these has its own native technology.
Writing your application many times in many different languages in the costly price of wanting both a large number of targetted handsets and access to the full features of each of them.
I'm a Symbian/J2ME veteran myself and, given your stated background and goals, I suspect that you are trying to learn about mobile technologies. I'll therefore shamelessly plug my book, which is meant as an introduction into the Symbian development ecosystem :
http://www.amazon.com/Quick-Recipes-Symbian-Smartphone-Development/dp/0470997834/
Good luck
If your primary goal is to reach the consumer market, Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) is probably your best bet. All popular mobile phones (from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung) come with a Java Virtual Machine installed. If you look at Google, for example, they are developing all of their mobile applications (like Gmail and Google Maps) in Java.
If you instead are targeting business customers, the Microsoft .NET Compact Framework is the way to go in my opinion. The Windows Mobile operating system holds a strong position in the business market, mainly because of Outlook Mobile and its integration with Exchange.
I respectfully disagree with Fostah.
If you want to reach the masses, the Web is your best bet. It's far easier to write a simple Web application that will work on millions of devices.
And the best bit is that you can easily update your application and improve the user experience everyday with the Web.