An expandable voice user interface as lab assistant based on an improved version of Google's speech recognition.

ABSTRACT: Voice assistants are potentially helpful when working in a scientific laboratory. A big challenge is the extremely specific use of language in every laboratory. As with any voice assistant, another concern is data security. Here, we present Rainbow-an open source voice user interface (VUI) for scientific laboratories, that is adaptable to any Windows PC with Internet access. We used Google Translate Site (GTS) as a voice input and output system to ensure communication to the user. The scripting language AutoIt controls GTS, executes all actions and builds the VUI. Rainbow performs tasks from three different areas-general Microsoft Windows tasks, lab-specific tasks, and device-specific tasks. We achieved significantly higher speech recognition accuracy with our VUI than with GTS alone (91.3

SUBMITTER: Avila Vazquez MF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10636177 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature