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Re: The wonders of Dragonfly

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Mr. Anderson <matrixlove@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Mr. Doe,
> 
> I recently came upon this:
> http://b09s25le.corenetworks.net/node/2724
> 
> Very nice of Mr. Butcher to share some code with you. I wonder
> why he doesn't speak much about Dragonfly in public these days.
> 
> Dragonfly seems just the thing to help get me coding by voice,
> if only I could even begin to understand how to use it. Your
> example code was helpful. I wonder, are there any other
> Dragonfly snippets you have laying around that might be
> interesting? 

What sort of snippets? 

Before using Vocola... I put everything (all of my Dragonfly macros) 
in one file. Putting the global macros at the bottom of the file 
causes program specific macros to take priority.

I don't do "grammar" or whatever you guys call it. I just record 
macros and stick them in a file. Trying to make the voice activator 
as short as possible... one, two, or three syllables.

> Most recently I attempted to get a working sample going which
> employs his base rule class, named "Rule". I have failed to do
> so. Here is my first feeble attempt:
> class RuleRule(Rule):
> 
>     def __init__(self, exported=True): # Make it a top-level
>     command. 
>         pass
> 
>     def _process_recognition(self, node): 
>         print "Rule recognized."
> 
> I'm wanting to get working examples of some his classes to show
> how they could be used, so that I may even eventually do
> something worthwhile with them. I've seen a few five videos
> where Dragonfly is used, only two of them being of much use to
> me. The rest of them were either a bit lame or were just showing
> off without teaching anything. That's what's frustrating about
> Tavis Rudd for me. He shows off but doesn't even give an inkling
> as to how he accomplishes his goal. 

You said you got it to work already. What happened?

I don't like the idea of going with Dragonfly, because the original 
author just isn't here anymore. At the same time, the Vocola guys 
are around. Mainly Mark Lillibridge, but Rick Mohr might be lurking. 
And the Natlink "administrator" guy is currently active. So is the 
guy that wrote the main part of Natlink (but I'm not sure where he 
comes down, either Vocola or Dragonfly, could find out). Speaking of 
people who have shared code with me... Mark Lillibridge has been 
exceptional in that respect, one Vocola 2 solution after another at 
(or at least after) my request.

I agree about Tavis Rudd. Has he done anything with it since that 
presentation? Some people fall out of love with speech recognition 
after the fascination wears off. It never ceases to amaze me that 
there aren't a bunch of real programmers interested in this speech 
activated scripting stuff. But oh well.











One bit of good news, if I'm not mistaken, the Natlink administrator 
might make installing Dragonfly easier (something to do with 
removing his pet project from the installer), even if the original 
author never gets around to it. 

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The wonders of Dragonfly Mr. Anderson <matrixlove@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-17 18:24 -0600
  Re: The wonders of Dragonfly John Doe <jdoe@usenetlove.invalid> - 2014-01-18 04:01 +0000
    Re: The wonders of Dragonfly Mr. Anderson <matrixlove@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-18 12:20 -0600
      Re: The wonders of Dragonfly John Doe <jdoe@usenetlove.invalid> - 2014-01-18 19:08 +0000
        Re: The wonders of Dragonfly John Doe <jdoe@usenetlove.invalid> - 2014-01-18 19:13 +0000
          Re: The wonders of Dragonfly Mr. Anderson <matrixlove@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-19 12:58 -0600
            Re: The wonders of Dragonfly John Doe <jdoe@usenetlove.invalid> - 2014-01-20 01:49 +0000
        Re: The wonders of Dragonfly Mr. Anderson <matrixlove@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-18 22:52 -0600

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