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- From: toddi@mav.com (Todd Inch)
- Subject: Re: Voice-activated circuitry
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.214401.9953@mav.com>
- Organization: Maverick International Inc.
- References: <1992Dec5.185735.1491@scott.skidmore.edu> <1992Dec6.230047.5330@u.washington.edu> <92345.151014GNR100@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 92 21:44:01 GMT
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- In article <92345.151014GNR100@psuvm.psu.edu> GNR100@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
- >
- > Just my 2: worth: I saw a MacGyver rerun last night in which he
- >a serries of wine glasses filled to different levels to generate tones that
- >unlocked a safe. Sounds possible, just using a combination of tones
- >instead of a combination of numbers. When the first tone is picked up,
- >wait for the next, when the nexet is recieved, scan for the following tone.
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- Most/all electronic combination locks have timeouts after too long a pause
- between digits/tones, reset if too many digits/tones are entered, etc.
- (By tones I'm thinking touch-tones such as telephone response systems.)
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- If this was supposed to be voice recognition, there would HAVE to be a LOT
- more than just simple tone sample decoding, such as duration, rise/fall, etc.
-
- I like MacGyver, but . . .
-