This is part three of the Building a Voice-Driven TV Remote series: Getting The Data Adding Search The Device API Some Basic Alexa Commands Adding a Listings Search Command Starting to Migrate from HTTP to MQTT Finishing the Migration from HTTP to MQTT Tracking Performance with Application Insights So now I've got a search engine for channels and TV listings, but none of this is particularly useful without a way to communicate with my actual devices.…
Building a Voice-Driven TV Remote - Part 2: Adding Search
This is part two of the Building a Voice-Driven TV Remote series: Getting The Data Adding Search The Device API Some Basic Alexa Commands Adding a Listings Search Command Starting to Migrate from HTTP to MQTT Finishing the Migration from HTTP to MQTT Tracking Performance with Application Insights In part one of this series I showed how I created a system to pull in channel and listing data on a daily basis and store that in…
Building a Voice-Driven TV Remote - Part 1: Getting The Data
This is part one of the Building a Voice-Driven TV Remote series: Getting The Data Adding Search The Device API Some Basic Alexa Commands Adding a Listings Search Command Starting to Migrate from HTTP to MQTT Finishing the Migration from HTTP to MQTT Tracking Performance with Application Insights When thinking recently about the types of things I wish I could control by voice in my house, one of the obvious answers was everything in my media…
Using Speech Recognition in iOS 10
There's a lot of awesome stuff coming in iOS 10, but one of the things I'm most excited about is that now there's actually an API for doing speech recognition in your apps. It was sort of possible to do this previously through some hackery (I have a bit of experience there), but now Apple is finally making it easy to leverage their great dictation feature in any app. Let's take a look at how easy…