Robots and voice control go together like pancakes and syrup. And both robotics and voice control are being opened up to larger and larger audiences via free and/or open source toolkits. This presentation will demonstrate ways to add voice control to a web site through both local and remote APIs, then pass recognized commands to a robot, requiring no more special equipment than a $100 consumer-market robot and a bluetooth equipped laptop.

1. Public Domain Robots – courtesy of Pixabay

2. What is a booty?
How Do You Shake It?

3. Pirate Babies - ©2008 Greg Bulmash - Used with permission

4. FromTumblr via Imgur via Giphy
shake one's booty, Slang.
1. to swing the hips and buttocks from side to side.
2. to dance with energy and enthusiasm.
dictionary.com

6. This Talk Has
an origin story

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8. This Talk Has
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10. This Talk Has
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12. This Talk Has
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14. This Talk Has
an origin story

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16. This Talk Has
an origin story

17. Three stages of voice control

18. Three stages of voice control

19. Three stages of voice control

20. Three stages of voice control

21. Public Domain Photo – courtesy of Pixabay

22. Public Domain Photo – courtesy of Pixabay

23. The state of the web speech API

24. making sense
of the words
Public Domain Photo – courtesy of Pixabay

25. "Words are relative..."
Public Domain Photo – courtesy of Pixabay
-- Albert Einstein, 1973

26. turning words into action

27. turning words into action

28. turning words into action{
"intents": [
{
"slots": [
{
"name": "SHAKE",
"type": "shaker"
},
{
"name": "MYPART",
"type": "mypart"
}
],
"intent": "ShakeIntent"
},
{
"slots": [
{
"name": "MYDIR",
"type": "rolls"
},
{
"name": "DURATION",
"type": "NUMBER"
}
],
"intent": "RollIntent"
},
{
"slots": [
{
"name": "WHATCLOSE",
"type": "whatclose"
}
],
"intent": "EndIntent"
}
]
}

29. turning words into action

30. turning words into action

31. turning words into action

32. turning words into action

33. turning words into action

34. turning words into action

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36. turning words into action

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38. turning words into action

39. Public Domain Photo – courtesy of Pixabay
Conveying the
command

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46. FromTumblr via Imgur via Giphy
shake one's booty, Slang.
1. to swing the hips and buttocks from side to side.
2. to dance with energy and enthusiasm.
dictionary.com

47. the end