Re: [slim] if you could voice-enable squeeze boxen...

2016-05-31 Thread Michael Herger
data that's available. it's actually better in the car for the most part, at least those systems that relay on Nuance AVR. How do you know which system they're using? And what is "Nuance AVR" anyway? Google doesn't really show up anything interesting... And would you know a music related

Re: [slim] if you could voice-enable squeeze boxen...

2016-05-31 Thread Michael Herger
the pronunciation problem is solvable, was in fact largely solved several years ago Not sure. Maybe for the all EN speaking community. But the problem for me and large parts of what the Americans call "the rest of the world" is that commands would be in the local native language (or not even

Re: [slim] if you could voice-enable squeeze boxen...

2016-05-31 Thread Michael Herger
I love the voice-controlled system in my car, where I can say "play album Abbey Road" or "play playlist Jazz Recliner" and it just plays. How does it handle mis-recognitions? Would it just play whatever it thinks it understood, or would it ask for confirmation? Is this working on your own,

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX

2016-05-31 Thread mbonsack
ralphy wrote: > That warning is coming from the portaudio library. The portaudio > developers are aware of the issue but have not yet updated the library > to use the newer api. So if the portaudio folks don't do anything, what happens? Are there alternatives for you to use?

Re: [slim] if you could voice-enable squeeze boxen...

2016-05-31 Thread pippin
epoch1970 wrote: > Yes, I've though about this and for me the only room in the home where > you may be highly constrained in terms of attention or physical > interaction is the kitchen. Cooking is a bit like driving, accidents > happen if you don't pay attention. (If I were spending any time in

Re: [slim] if you could voice-enable squeeze boxen...

2016-05-31 Thread netchord
the pronunciation problem is solvable, was in fact largely solved several years ago, but not enough of the newer systems take advantage of data that's available. it's actually better in the car for the most part, at least those systems that relay on Nuance AVR. and i agree about the kitchen as

Re: [slim] if you could voice-enable squeeze boxen...

2016-05-31 Thread epoch1970
EricBergan wrote: > Actually, the main thing I want is the play controls - "pause", "play", > "next", "who is this". If I'm doing something else (reading, computer, > etc.) while listening, I'd rather not have to pick up tablet/phone for > these. Changing playlists would also be nice, but I

Re: [slim] if you could voice-enable squeeze boxen...

2016-05-31 Thread epoch1970
Dogberry2 wrote: > I love the voice-controlled system in my car... Yes, I've though about this and for me the only room in the home where you may be highly constrained in terms of attention or physical interaction is the kitchen. Cooking is a bit like driving, accidents happen if you don't pay

Re: [slim] if you could voice-enable squeeze boxen...

2016-05-31 Thread EricBergan
Actually, the main thing I want is the play controls - "pause", "play", "next", "who is this". If I'm doing something else (reading, computer, etc.) while listening, I'd rather not have to pick up tablet/phone for these. Changing playlists would also be nice, but I wouldn't use that as often.

Re: [slim] if you could voice-enable squeeze boxen...

2016-05-31 Thread Dogberry2
I love the voice-controlled system in my car, where I can say "play album Abbey Road" or "play playlist Jazz Recliner" and it just plays. While driving at 70mph, that's much better than having to manually and visually scroll through menus to find what I want; I keep my eyes on the road and my

Re: [slim] Music Backup in the Cloud

2016-05-31 Thread atrocity
Squeezemenicely wrote: > Mission accomplished, my music is now backed up in the cloud, more than > 1 TB. Amazon really has good upload speed. Now I feel a bit safer. So > the worst bit is behind me, the initial upload. From now on my NAS will > automatically sync with the cloud. So all is good.

Re: [slim] [ANNOUNCE] SqueezePlay for Mac OSX

2016-05-31 Thread ralphy
mbonsack wrote: > I see that squeezelite has also been recently updated. But I still get > this running on OS X El Capitan: > > 2016-05-30 21:35:00.915 squeezelite[49331:5322559] 21:35:00.915 WARNING: > 140: This application, or a library it uses, is using the deprecated > Carbon Component