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Posts Tagged ‘Home automation’

• Have you ever wanted to be able to ask your computer questions and have it answer you out loud?
• Have you ever wondered if your computer could be more like the ones running the Star Trek Enterprise, responding to voice queries and commands?

• Have you played with ZWave or X10 home automation and thought that voice control of your devices would be an obvious next step?

Well, ok … I’m not going to show you how to turn on lights or work with home automation — but that’s the main thing that keeps me thinking about this voice-recognition stuff. What geek doesn’t want to walk into the living room and say “Computer: Lights On” and have it work?

Instead, as a first step to all of that, let me show you how to use PowerShell to do simple voice command recognition scripts … which can fire off any PowerShell script you care to write! Read the rest of this entry »