Development Example – BNF Grammar
Static speech commands are not suitable when there are a large number of selections available to a user.
For instance, to have a speech command for entering a time would require 60 speech commands for every minute value, multiplied by the 24 hours in a day.
That would mean your application would need to register 1,440 voice commands!
To solve this issue your application can register BNF grammar to the speech engine. This allows for 2 groups of words to be combined to make a single voice command.
Once the BNF grammar has been registered the speech engine will listen for any of the possible combinations and report back the spoken command as a string for processing.
In this case, every command must include a number from the <Hour> group, and optionally one from the <Minute> group. ‘5 30’ , ‘7 27’, ‘1 55’, ‘3’ are all examples of valid voice commands for this BNF.
private final String BnfString = "#BNF+EM V2.0;" +
"!grammar Commands;\n" +
"!start <Commands>;\n" +
"<Commands>:<global_commands>|<Hour> !optional(<Minute>);\n" +
"<Minute>:1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|21|22|23|24|25|26|27|28|29|30|31|32|33|34|35|36|37|38|39|40|41|42|43|44|45|46|47|48|49|50|51|52|53|54|55|56|57|58|59;\n" +
"<Hour>:1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|19|20|21|22|23|24;";
private final String ACTION_OVERRIDE_COMMANDS =
"com.realwear.wearhf.intent.action.OVERRIDE_COMMANDS";
private final String EXTRA_SOURCE_PACKAGE =
"com.realwear.wearhf.intent.extra.SOURCE_PACKAGE";
private static final String EXTRA_COMMANDS =
"com.realwear.wearhf.intent.extra.COMMANDS";
private void textToSpeech() {
final Intent intent = new Intent(ACTION_OVERRIDE_COMMANDS);
intent.putExtra(EXTRA_SOURCE_PACKAGE, getPackageName());
intent.putExtra(EXTRA_COMMANDS, BnfString);
sendBroadcast(intent);
}