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Tools I developed to make my preperation easy

I'm sharing with all of you, how I'm using some tools which I developed to make my preparation easier.
My inspiration for developing this system is Iron Man movie :wink: . I liked the idea when that hero speaks to the system like, hey remind me or hey save it or search it etc. I thought it is not impossible and this can be a boon for us when we are seriously reading a book and we want to make a small note may be in a separate notebook or so.

With this tool, we can just put earphones and simultaneously make out our point in the PC and also read our book without distracting.

Voice Interacto. Control your computer by speaking to it and make it do things like
  1. dictating the notes/mail etc
  2. you can say
    • Open chrome / evernote / etc
    • Wiki search 'Biomagnification'
    • investopedia search 'Preferential shares'
    • meaning of 'pastoral'
    • timeline save Battle of Buxar in year 1764 with tags history,british [ see below section to get clarity on this command ]
    • mnemonic bihar population 99 million [ again see below ]
    • can add practically any other command if it is logical and possible
I have integrated this tool with set of other tools. In fact all of them are linked to a centralized portal,like mauryan administration :wink:, which is managed by 'tags'.
  1. timeline view of imp events like world war which is more imp, so it appears bigger than Tenzing Sherpa climbing Mt. Everest image
  2. save definitions/committes/doubts/questions/image/video/mindmaps and give it reevant tags . I named it smart saver image
  3. Another tool which is like a repository of related mindmaps. ( useful when we are overloaded with lots of mindmaps)
  4. Another tool which helps in finding a mnemonic. Ex : I want to remember that bihar population is 99 million. ( generated < 2 sec) image [ see https://litemind.com/major-system/ if u did not understand why 99 = popeye]
  5. Underline imp points while reading Hindu article and save the article again using the same tags system. Here when u want to revise the article, u can either see the whole article as shown here image or just retrieve the highlited keywords.
So having understood the tools, now let me explain about the heart of this system, the portal.

I can go to the portal and filter the whole repository using tags say 'polity' and 'definition'. It will now go and find the results from my mindmaps, my hindu articles, my list of events, my smart saver records and shows me one below the other. I can now further filter them to show only last 3 days or last 2 days.

Don't try to search in google because it cant reach out to my laptop to show u the results :wink:

I have made some other tools as well which are for chota mota things but these are the ones I feel worth sharing.
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Comments

  • Thanks man.. Hope you had shared it a bit earlier.

    Hope it will help all the future aspirants. Good luck to all.
  • Yeah I thought of sharing but I joined this forum few days back.
  • even i had wasted so much time in making one...later i realised one note was way better than mine lol...I wish i had spend that time in studying...:(
  • @dapu did u try making the speech recognition app as well ? . Bdw optional ?
  • @gpsias :O how you know that? I tried but that project is not related to this app. I didn't found corpus for Hindi :\ and acoustic models were pretty lame too. I have stopped working on that as I was not getting time for exams. And it was actually not an app, but a program intended for IoT device.
  • edited August 2016
    @gpsias You seem to be from IT background. I am planning to go with EE or Philosophy..not decided yet ..Which optional you going for....are you too first timer?
  • @gpsias How can we get this tool
  • @gpsias You seem to be from IT background. I am planning to go with EE or Philosophy..not decided yet ..Which optional you going for....are you too first timer?

    I'm a civil Engineer. This is just out of sheer passion.
    Will be releasing a video and a blog in a week explaining what these tools can do.
    @gpsias :O how you know that? I tried but that project is not related to this app. I didn't found corpus for Hindi :\ and acoustic models were pretty lame too. I have stopped working on that as I was not getting time for exams. And it was actually not an app, but a program intended for IoT device.
    I just tried english. Not sure about hindi. Any speech to text to gain decent accuracy should be linked with internet. Else it will be constrained and it needs to be trained. but Nuance dragon is good except that It cant recognise new words like from our Ancient history and culture :expressionless: .

    That is the main reason for developing this tool. It can recognize even such words if they are well known. Now need to give it any context or reference.

  • @gpsias You seem to be from IT background. I am planning to go with EE or Philosophy..not decided yet ..Which optional you going for....are you too first timer?

    I'm a civil Engineer. This is just out of sheer passion.
    Will be releasing a video and a blog in a week explaining what these tools can do.
    @gpsias :O how you know that? I tried but that project is not related to this app. I didn't found corpus for Hindi :\ and acoustic models were pretty lame too. I have stopped working on that as I was not getting time for exams. And it was actually not an app, but a program intended for IoT device.
    I just tried english. Not sure about hindi. Any speech to text to gain decent accuracy should be linked with internet. Else it will be constrained and it needs to be trained. but Nuance dragon is good except that It cant recognise new words like from our Ancient history and culture :expressionless: .

    That is the main reason for developing this tool. It can recognize even such words if they are well known. Now need to give it any context or reference.

    Can this tool be used for speech to text like dictating notes in Microsoft word ?
  • @gpsias You seem to be from IT background. I am planning to go with EE or Philosophy..not decided yet ..Which optional you going for....are you too first timer?

    I'm a civil Engineer. This is just out of sheer passion.
    Will be releasing a video and a blog in a week explaining what these tools can do.
    @gpsias :O how you know that? I tried but that project is not related to this app. I didn't found corpus for Hindi :\ and acoustic models were pretty lame too. I have stopped working on that as I was not getting time for exams. And it was actually not an app, but a program intended for IoT device.
    I just tried english. Not sure about hindi. Any speech to text to gain decent accuracy should be linked with internet. Else it will be constrained and it needs to be trained. but Nuance dragon is good except that It cant recognise new words like from our Ancient history and culture :expressionless: .

    That is the main reason for developing this tool. It can recognize even such words if they are well known. Now need to give it any context or reference.

    Can this tool be used for speech to text like dictating notes in Microsoft word ?

    Yes dictate anything anywhere.
    supports all funky nouns in history culture biology as well.

    It also has voice commands like " google search Tripitaka " and it will show u the results.
    Lot of other commands . .
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