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Steve

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• Amulet Voice Kinect – Part 2 – OpenCV, HaarTraining and HaarCascade.

  Fri, March 2, 2012 in General

  (If you missed Part 1, which introduced Amulet Voice Kinect, read it here.) So after deciding to see if HaarCascades would work at all with the depth-stream from Kinect, I figured I needed to give the first test the best chance of success. There was no point making a half-hearted effort, have it fail and […]

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• Amulet Voice Kinect – Part 1 – Using HaarClassifiers so you can sit down!

  Fri, March 2, 2012 in General

  You may have previously seen in videos, early versions of the Amulet software being used with Kinect. Now the music functionality is finished and we’re ready to give it away. If it proves popular then we’ll release a paid version that will include all the other functionality currently in our Amulet Voice Remote product and […]

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• Kinect Audio Smarts are seriously impressive!

  Thu, August 4, 2011 in General

  Everyone seems to be raving about the “depth camera & skeletal tracking” uses for Kinect, excuse me while I rave a little about the Audio processing …

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• DLNA Speech Enabled Controller

  Wed, January 26, 2011 in General

  I’ve recently been giving some thought to something I call a DLNA Speech Enabled Controller. Imagine a software application that would sit on a PC on your LAN. It would have speech recognition capability and receive voice input from anywhere in the house over a radio link courtesy of an Amulet remote (or maybe a […]

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• Pushing and Pulling with DLNA

  Wed, January 26, 2011 in General

  I’ve been using the DLNA capability of my Samsung TV for some time to directly access media stored on a Windows 7 PC, but I’ve recently tried out two other scenarios that work surprisingly well thanks to the inbuilt support in Windows 7. The first is the ability to “push” a video (or other piece […]

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• Media Center Hidden Menus

  Mon, October 4, 2010 in General

  Media Center Hidden Menus

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• Media Center A/V setup controlled by Voice Remote

  Mon, September 27, 2010 in General

  I decided to make a blog entry on my current MediaCenter setup. I’ve been using Microsoft MediaCenter for 5 years or so to provide my TV viewing experience; I’ve run it on many PC hardware boxes during that time, both off-the shelf and home-made, but my current Windows-7 MediaCenter is running on a home-made box.

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• Green Button stocks arrive

  Mon, August 2, 2010 in Manufacturing

  To be a Microsoft Certified Media Center Remote Control, you have to special order the specific Green Button with the Windows logo.

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