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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #210 on: March 22, 2010, 07:12:52 PM »

Confession:  I have heard my neighbors arguing on their baby monitor...   :'

I never told them.
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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #211 on: March 22, 2010, 07:40:07 PM »

Confession:  I have heard my neighbors arguing on their baby monitor...   

I used to hear a neighbor that lived in the apartment below me. His girlfriend was always screaming.... but they never argued.
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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #212 on: March 22, 2010, 07:54:12 PM »

I used to hear a neighbor that lived in the apartment below me. His girlfriend was always screaming.... but they never argued.

Being a married man myself, I think the key word there is "girlfriend".   :o :'
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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #213 on: March 22, 2010, 10:10:16 PM »

Confession:  I have heard my neighbors arguing on their baby monitor...   

I used to hear a neighbor that lived in the apartment below me. His girlfriend was always screaming.... but they never argued.


BTDT...    :D
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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #214 on: March 27, 2010, 07:54:44 PM »

What's a guy gotta do to get the full version since it is password protected?? 

I am tinkering around with ihouse and want to integrate it and try it out.

Thanks!!   ;D
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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #215 on: March 27, 2010, 07:57:48 PM »

What's a guy gotta do to get the full version since it is password protected?? 

I am tinkering around with ihouse and want to integrate it and try it out.

Thanks!!   ;D

The latest trial version pops up a box explaining all that when you start it up.   B:(   ;)

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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #216 on: March 27, 2010, 07:59:32 PM »

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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #217 on: April 02, 2010, 06:56:08 AM »

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I finally got BVC working to my satisfaction And it is great. In fact it has become a topic on its own. All my friends talk about it. And my grand sons love to give their command and at least they think they control the lights. I am thinking of setting BVC in their own rooms.
Here is how I communicate with BVC:
I modified a baby monitor, just as Dave had done, and I use my telephone system's intercome to talk to monitor. I do need your help to figure out how my wife too can use the system. Can BVC operate with more than one voice using the same setup? I'll need to do that for my grand sons as well or I'll have a reballion on my hands. oh the boys are only 4 & 6.

Thanks again for a flawless system and keep up the good work. Also do let me know if I can be of any help.

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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #218 on: April 02, 2010, 10:55:30 AM »

...... I modified a baby monitor, just as Dave had done, and I use my telephone system's intercome to talk to monitor.

Hummm. Does that mean your [sending] monitor is in listening range of at least one phone... so using the phone intercom from anywhere in the home works?

I do need your help to figure out how my wife too can use the system. Can BVC operate with more than one voice using the same setup? I'll need to do that for my grand sons as well or I'll have a reballion on my hands. oh the boys are only 4 & 6.

Whereas Bill hasn't worked out that wife (as another user) thing yet.... my (grown) son can command my setup just fine. I wonder if the two boys will sound plenty close enough to each other as well.
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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #219 on: April 08, 2010, 06:46:18 PM »

Dave
Sorry for such a late reply. You are right, monitor is right next to one of the phones. Only drawback to this setup is that when some one is using this particular phone, i get to hear it down in basement. Of course the monitor can be turned off for the duration of the call.
Boys do sound close enough. I'll give it a try on their next visit.
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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #220 on: April 08, 2010, 06:51:15 PM »

.. You are right, monitor is right next to one of the phones. Only drawback to this setup is that when some one is using this particular phone....

I like that idea!
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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #221 on: July 19, 2010, 12:21:38 PM »

I would like to get some ideas from you all on how to use the "speak text file" feature.  I know I can surely use this feature but right now my brain went on vacation!  Maybe we can share ideas on how to use this feature!   :)
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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #222 on: July 20, 2010, 08:43:37 PM »

I would like to get some ideas from you all on how to use the "speak text file" feature.  I know I can surely use this feature but right now my brain went on vacation!  Maybe we can share ideas on how to use this feature!   :)

Looks like this discussion has been moved to Bill's (BVC) forums:  http://wgjohns.com/forums/index.php?topic=160.msg747#msg747
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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #223 on: July 21, 2010, 02:19:32 AM »

One of the reasons for speaking text from a file was to support the reading of text files created by other software.  It could be anything from current weather readings or sports scores to status output from some other sensing program.

The other reason was that some people wanted BVC to speak text that was either too long or too difficult to manually enter into "Speak a Custom Phrase" style setups.

One user, for instance, wanted BVC to speak a random Bible passage every morning, but the total number and length of the passages was too much for a "Custom Phrase".  Now, the passages can be stored in separate text files and BVC can randomly choose a text file (passage) to speak.

I just write the tools, it's the user's imagination that brings them to life!   ;)
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Re: BVC (Bill's Voice Commander) (Visual BASIC version)
« Reply #224 on: July 21, 2010, 09:32:55 AM »

And what a great tool BVC is!!!!  Any other ideas?   ;D
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