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Well after sailing session one I was not happy with the speech recognition card outputs. The percentage of incorrect readings, no readings or incorrect readings. Only seven possible words were available. It just did not work well. I was super happy with the transmitter and micro controller part.

So back to the drawing board on the Speech module section. After many, many hours of trolling the internet I tripped over a program that lets you write programs for mobile phones and has a fantastic speech recognition feature inside using google. It has opened up a whole new world and deep rabbit hole.....

What's the plan for Mark ii ? Any mobile phone will be able to pair to the transmitter microprocess via Bluetooth and run the the mobile phone application which I can either email or put on google play. (down the track) The phone will listen the entire time for speech checking a couple times a second for words. Once a word is received, eg Right 10. The slider on the screen will show hard right and send via Bluetooth to a ESP32 Arduino module in the transmitter a changed in value of channel one. The Arduino will receive this value, crunch the number, fire into the transmitter, which in turn sends the signal to the boat receiver.

Sound complicated. Hell yes. But not for the end users. Just say Right 10 and the rudder goes hard right.

Now with any word or combination available, anything is achievable and hence the huge rabbit hole I am creating for myself. The current plan is to have a key words like "My Boat Control" and the cell phone takes over control of the boat. Say " Transmitter control" or turn on emergency transmitter switch and the transmitter is back to normal manual stick control via the sticks.

A new extras with using cellphone for the speech controller; Say rudder tune minus five, and the cellphone control will create a new rudder normal center position and save this number on that Cell Phone SD card. Next time this cell phone turns on this speech app, this stored data on the cellphone is recovered from the SD card and will be used again as center (same for winch fine tune zero).

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