ListenUp!

Speech Recognition PlugIn for Netscape 2.0

I have made available a development version of a PlainTalk Speech Recognition PlugIn for Netscape 2.0.

*** Note *** This will only run on PowerMacs

To use this PlugIn you will need the following:

When you get that collected, here is an example page to try out.

Adding support for Speech Recognition to your own pages is straight forward.

Create a document with the embedded plugin as follows:
```
<embed src="link.ptlk" width=40 height=40>
```
Create the link.ptlk file that contains the correspondence between what is said and the url to open. Here is an example:
```
# A test script to use

"Dilbert"=http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/
"New York Times"=http://www.nytimes.com/
"MacWeek"=http://www.zdnet.com/~macweek/
"Climate Center"=http://snow.cit.cornell.edu/nrcc_home.html
```
Comments start with a #. Recognized phrases are in quotes followed by an equal sign then the url is everything until the end of the line.

That's it. Pretty much. There are a few other things to note.

It works great from local files. Just make sure that the src reference points to a file with the .ptlk extension so that Netscape knows to load ListenUp.
On a server make sure that the mime type plugin/listenup maps to the ptlk extension.
There is a limit of 100 speakable phrases.
Don't get to funny with the phrases you choose. You may just crash your mac.
If your mac does crash. I'm sorry. It is probably my fault. I will try to make future versions more robust.
If you want to run this on 68K AV macs email me and I will see if I can compile up a version with the 68K libs.
I am planning on adding several things to this bare bones PlugIn. Most notably an icon for the embedded window and more complex speech models.

If you have any comments or suggests or complaints please email the former to Bill Noon at wn10@cornell.edu