C++ and XML...

[David A. Sinck]

\_ SMTP quoth Kit Plummer on 7/17/2001 08:30 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ Hello folks.
\_ 
\_ Over the past year or so myself and a couple other people have been
\_ pondering a project.  

A few points having scanned most of the discussion to date on this:

1) Why have a voice recognition system?  You could just wire a button
   onto the joystick to squeeze when complete.  That saves a
   microphone from a potentially hostile and possibly noisy
   environment.

   Oh yeah...you don't want to confuse the pilot with a switch that
   isn't the machine gun.  Nevermind.

2) You mention "providing an in-cockpit expert system".  It's been a
   while since I studied expert systems, but the dominance was
   favoring Lisp, Prolog, or similar languages that were more rule
   based.  

3) See 'festival' and 'mbrola' for linux Text to speech.  They work
   well and have amusements like a 'plugin' for xchat.  Has voices
   predefined and all that.

4) If you go consumer goods why not add a velcrod on computer/handheld
   where the main button was "check"?  You could probably come up with
   an attactive plastic enclosure, a USB/Serial port for
   refreshing....   

David