Ice desert

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VTT Pro for Multi-Apps

This App is upgrade for "Voice To Text for Multi-Apps", it adds two useful feature " Google Search" and " Google Map"

Feature:

- Multiple Languages Choosing 

English: Australia, British, USA, Canada, New Zealand, India
Chinese: Mandarin, Cantonese
French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Latin
Arabic: Egypt, Qatar,Saudi Arabia
Japanese, Korean

-Voice to Text, and text can be edited and sent by Multiple Apps

The Text can be edited by soft-keyboard and sent by Multiple Apps, such as "Text Message", "Email", "Gmail", "Facebook", "Twitter" and "WhatsApp" etc...

- Google Search

Voice input the "keyword" for search, you can use your native language.

- Google Map

Voice input the "address" for search, you can use your native language.

Google Search Result

Google Search Demo

Google Search for "adele"

Google Search Result

Google map Demo

Google map Result

Use Google Search to find a restaurant

The Result

Voice To Text for Multi-Apps

Using Google voice recognition to transfer your voice to Text. The Text can be edited by soft-keyboard and sent by Multiple Apps, such as "Text Message", "Email", "Gmail", "Facebook","Twitter" and "WhatsApp" tc...

Feature:

- Multiple Languages Choosing

English: Australia, British, USA, Canada, New Zealand, India
Chinese: Mandarin, Cantonese
French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Spanish, Latin
Arabic: Egypt, Qatar,Saudi Arabia
Japanese, Korean

-Voice to Text, and text can be edited and sent by Multiple Apps

Update for "Wired! The Dead Kindle is alive now".

On my previous blog, I mentioned one of my old kindle 3 is dead（frozen screen）, then got recovery. Actually, it was good just for few days, then it was frozen again and refused to wake up anymore.

After a while, I figured it out it is the logic board problem, I bought some broken screen Kindle from ebay and changed the logic board, now it runs like new one.

Broke logic board

Tear down the Kindle 3

Rolling in the deep

adele @ npr

Marina @ French get talent

The hiding predator -- Wobbegong

Shark-eat-shark

The photo says it all: an alien-looking shark, adorned with mossy hairs and a flat face, with its mouth agape and a slender bamboo shark headfirst inside. Though not unusual for a shark to snack on another shark, it's not typical behavior — and it's certainly not common for humans to catch the action firsthand.


n fact, the researchers who came upon the shark-eat-shark scene on the fringes of Great Keppel Island on the southern Great Barrier Reef didn't realize at first what they were looking at.

"The white bamboo shark appeared first, and as we came closer, we suddenly realized that its head was not hidden under a ledge, as is usual, but in the mouth of the very well-camouflaged wobbegong," Daniela Ceccarelli of Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence (ARC) for Coral Reef Studies, told LiveScience, adding that "witnessing predation events like this is very rare."

Ceccarelli and David Williams, also of ARC, were conducting a fish census there on Aug. 1, 2011, when they spotted the sharks.

The predator was a four-foot wobbegong, a bottom-dewlling shark that uses its natural camouflage to blend into the seafoor and ambush prey.

Run Hamsters, Run

We took a funny video about busy running hamsters. They are so cute and activity, lots of energy.

The accompaniment music track is "Believe" by Germany movie "Run Lola, Run"

The future Possible Olympic figure skate Championship

Karen Chen is just 12 years old and she won the novice 2012 Figure Skating National Championship. She works 4 hrs/day and 6 days/week for practices. Amazing!

You have to love to do what you are doing.  I like her attitude to face pressure. 

"It is like a party,you made to this party,you just go out there and enjoy it. Have fun out there"

Good for her ! Nice Job and well done ! Good luck in your future competition!

Kinect Program Running On Win8 (My recent work-3)

Recently I installed my program on a Win 8 (Developer Preview) laptop, which is old Latitude D430, it has a intel core 2 duo CPU running @ 1.2 Ghz. Basically it is lower than the Kinect SDK requirement, which asks at least Dual-core 2.66Ghz or above.

When the D430 was running the Kinect program, it showed some lagged but basically it worked.

If you want know more of my work, you can visit my youtube channel @ http://www.youtube.com/dalianhank

Why Apple's iPad/iPhone/iPod does not have zoom function on video record?

I recently used a new iPad for my Kinect Demo recording, and the new iPad's video quality is quite good. However, the pain part is for video recording, there is no zoom function.

I checked iPhone4 and iPod4, they are in the same pool. My htc android phone does have this function, I don't think it is hard for Apple put it on, but why not?

 Anyway, I sent a email to Mr. Tim cook as follows:


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Hi Mr. Cook,

 Recently I used a new iPad for a video presentation recording, I even bought a iPad tripod mount for it. But I was astonished to find there is no video zoom function for the new iPad or iPad 2. Why????

Does Apple have any plan to add this function in the future?

 best regs,

 Henry

 Sent from my iPad


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So far no reply!

Tearing down the Dell latitude D410 and D430 (If you don't know, don't do it)

To de-assemble a laptop is used to be my hobby. I had torn down thinkpad ,dell latitude and Compaq laptop long time ago. Here are photos showing how to tear down a Dell latitude D430.


1. Taking off the battery (this is D410 model)

2. Taking off harddriver (this is D410 model)

3. Momory (this is D410 modle)

4. Front cover (this is D410 model)

5.Palm  Part (this D410 model)

6. Front of palm part

7. back of Palm part

8. Front of Base

9. Finish one

10. all the small parts (WLAN, Memory, Bluttooth, harddrive etc...)

Dell latitude model is quite good design and quality, my D430 is almost 5 years and still works fine. I update the OS to Win8 developer preview, it recognized almost all the hardware expect  the finger scan and bluetooth were not function. I noticed it more hotter than running Win7, however it depends its metal case, it  works well.

The laptop were dropped to floor several time, so fat it is fine.

The big disadvantages are the max memory is 2Gb and very slowly hard disk 4200 rpm and 1.8", which is very hard to find replacement.

More information for D430

Dead Kindle (frozen screen) and Fix method

Recently my kindle was dead, it stayed on a frozen screen and refuse to re-startup. Even you hold the power button to left for 20,30 seconds or 2 minutes.


Dead body of Kindle

If you plug it your computer, you will find a new unknown device if you use Windows starup- "Devices and Printer" like following

Basically your kindle's SD memory is broken. There is no easy way to fix this problem. If you really want to fix it by yourself, you can refer following video

Or you can just CALL AMAZON for new replacement.

html 5 Speech Input -very funny and easy function

Very funny , click the Micro button, say something.

Update: It looks like you need Google chrome to explore this page, the IE 9 and Firefox 11 can't see the microphone icon. It is weird, those explorer should support html5. I have no idea! 

My idea of 'Voice to text" phone for hearing problem person

The purpose of this idea is to help hearing problem people(even for deaf person but can speak) to understand the telephone conversation. So they can have normal communication as everybody.

This service will have to use Google voice or Apple Siri as the speech recognition engine, and to use voice over IP for transmission. The voice packet will be sent to Google (Apple) speech recognition engine (cloud severs) and transfer to text (Voice to Text ), then will be deliver to receiver with voice input in the same time.

The key point is the receiver will have visual and audio inputs in the same time. This will help them to understand the conversation and respond normally.

Right now, I think only Google or Apple have the ability to do it, because it asks both inputs have to arrive in same time-no delay; the other reason is you have use the cloud severs as the engine to improve the accuracy rate of speech recognition.

I already submit a suggestion to Google voice, hope hear some positive message.

My recent work for Kinect sensor-2

Using Kinect skeleton tracking to simulate mouse cursor movement and click action (left click only), you can switch both of your hands to control mouse cursor movement, and use the opposite hand to simulate click action.

This video shows how to control Google chrome.

Yemen cafe

If you want to try some veritable north Africa food, it is a nice place to go.
http://www.google.com/m/place?cid=534793482453049472&q=yemen+cafe+brooklyn&fb=1&gl=us&hq=yemen+cafe&hnear=0x89c24416947c2109:0x82765c7404007886,Brooklyn,+NY

My recent work for Kinect sensor-1

Using Kinect skeleton tracking to implement the hand gesture recognition is quite popular right now, but we still need speech recognition help one the mouse-enabled graphical user interface,such as the Win 7 starup interface.

Following video show how to combine hand gesture recognition with speech recognition to control Windows Media Center.

Basically I think hand gesture recognition mainly simulates the keyboard function. And on next post I will show how to use skeleton tracking to implement mouse control.

This is my first post.

Hello Virtual World, I am coming!