Bluetooth to Midi converter:
By Mike Szczys at Hackaday
http://hackaday.com/2011/07/09/turn-any-bluetooth-device-into-a-midi-controller/
Cheap 2-Way Bluetooth Connection Between Arduino and PC
By Techbitar at Instructables
http://www.instructables.com/id/Cheap-2-Way-Bluetooth-Connection-Between-Arduino-a/?ALLSTEPS
Arduino to Android using Bluetooth
By Brian Jepson at Make
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/03/19/bluetooth-4-0-from-arduino-to-iphone-no-jailbreaking-no-mfi/
A thought exercise – to come up with various ways of making wireless Midi systems based on projects I’ve already done.
* indicates method not tried yet.
R-Pi for aerial sensing.
By Kevino at Make
http://blog.makezine.com/2012/11/08/raspberry-pi-in-the-sky/?parent=RaspberryPi
Arduino-Compatible Shield for Raspberry Pi.
What this means: You create an app on a device which doesn’t have a browser. For example, an Arduino, an appliance, or a game console. This procedure shows how to authorize that device to access a user’s account for Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc.,
See this URL for Google instructions: https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2ForDevices
Notes and Google examples (using curl from a command line):
Here is an oauth 2.0 google request for a user code – The client id is obtained using instructions found at the link above.
curl -d "client_id=104588205543369.apps.googleusercontent.com&scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile" https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/device/code
Which returned this JSON response:
{
"device_code" : "4/Gujc7GxpGFSHNlphxVZCK_y10yS6Kq",
"user_code" : "ibaz70ej9",
"verification_url" : "http://www.google.com/device",
"expires_in" : 1800,
"interval" : 5
}
Then you go to the URL in the response, enter the user code, and follow instructions…
Then from the device you do this…
curl -d "client_id=1045882053369.apps.googleusercontent.com&client_secret=zDP5UVwbqcYzv7rnVieKxnOV&code=4/Gujc7GxpGHNlphxVZCK_y10yS6Kq&grant_type=http://oauth.net/grant_type/device/1.0" https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token
Which returns this response:
{
"access_token" : "ya29.AHES6ZE2QxqzZyWkGu20lJljEIHYTf08VtggyRF73428w0LQ7lzFP_uw",
"token_type" : "Bearer",
"expires_in" : 3600,
"id_token" : "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImJhZGQ4NWFhMmRlZmZkMWFkZWJkNzc2NTgxNWMzZmVjZTM0MmIzNGEifQ.eyJpc3MiOiJhY2NvdW50cy5nb29nbGUuY29tIiwiaWQiOiIxMTExNzg0MjgyNzI3MDgxMTI0NTMiLCJhdWQiOiIxMDQ1ODgyMDUzMzY5LmFwcHMuZ2df9vZ2xldXNlcmNvbnRlbnQuY29tIiwiY2lkIjoiMTA0NTg4MjA1MzM2OS5hcHBzLmdvb2dsZXVzZXJjb250ZW50LmNvbSIsInZlcmlmaWVkX2VtYWlsIjoidHJ1ZSIsInRva2VuX2hhc2gefiOiJvVG9OdS0tYU1DUGhYbUI1S3p4TTN3IiwiZW1haWwiOiJ6aWNhcmVsdEBnb3VsZGFjYWRlbXkub3JnIiwiaGQiOiJnb3VsZGFjYWRlbXkub3JnIiwiaWF0IjoxMzU2MjQ2Mjg2LCJleHAiOjEzNTYyNTAxODZ9.DqIqLtg9m6wlHh5YSFFgXIOgbMW0E2mKR2FdY7PWtNJrt91moqVBe7dQxQPNalQMKhYTapJdVk2MB1oRl7zXEnLIe_VjI3BUwzTKqaG_sS9oRyh14_yqDWeMFru5d7OFUm1Ulwb2lLdWWwtttEVyJiw94oBdR0tuWg0MNkEOkXU",
"refresh_token" : "1/NuEmigydABgeRwZaRCZbZZckJ-EJFZd8C1YZLURut8s"
}
Now your device can use the access token query string method…
curl https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo?access_token=ya29.AHES6ZQxqzZyWkGu20lJljEIHYTf08VtggyRF73428w0LQ7lzFP_uw
Here is the response:
{
"id": "1111784282727081812453",
"email": "[email protected]",
"verified_email": true,
"name": "Tony Tiger",
"given_name": "Tony",
"family_name": "Tiger",
"hd": "looney.org"
}
Or you can use the http header option…
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer ya29.AHKKES6ZQxqzZyWkGu20lJljEIHYTf08VtggyRF73428w0LQ7lzFP_uw" https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/user info
which should return the exact same response.
[Also see] tkzic/max teaching examples/google-oauth2.0-readme.txt
Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Get a developer API key from here: http://www.dictionaryapi.com
example of a request to the Thesaurus API
curl http://www.dictionaryapi.com/api/v1/references/thesaurus/xml/cheese?key=ee2466d2-07a0-40af-b959-abcdeb125f0ca
Here’s the XML response – filled with synonyms:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <entry_list version="1.0"> <entry id="cheese"><term><hw>cheese</hw></term><fl>noun</fl><sens><mc>that which is of low quality or worth</mc><vi>you wouldn't believe the <it>cheese</it> that the movie studio puts out</vi><syn>cheese, crapola [<it>slang</it>], dreck (<it>also</it> drek), muck, rubbish, sleaze, slop, slush, trash, tripe</syn><rel>camp, kitsch; claptrap, humbug, nonsense; bomb, clinker, clunker, dud, lemon, stinker, turkey; mess, muddle, shambles</rel></sens></entry> <entry id="big cheese"><term><hw>big cheese</hw></term><fl>noun</fl><sens><mc>one of high position or importance within a group</mc><vi>thinks he's a <it>big cheese</it> just because he's got a business card</vi><syn>big, big boy, big cheese, bigfoot, biggie, big gun, big leaguer, big-timer, big wheel, bigwig, fat cat, heavy, heavy hitter, heavyweight, high-muck-a-muck (<it>or</it> high-muckety-muck), honcho, kahuna, kingfish, kingpin, major leaguer, muckety-muck (<it>also</it> muck-a-muck <it>or</it> mucky-muck), nabob, nawab, nibs, nob [<it>chiefly British</it>], pooh-bah (<it>also</it> poo-bah), wheel</syn><rel>baron, czar (<it>also</it> tsar <it>or</it> tzar), king, lion, magnate, mogul, prince, tycoon; VIP</rel><near>inferior, subordinate, underling; mediocrity, obscurity</near><ant>lightweight, nobody, nonentity, nothing, shrimp, twerp, whippersnapper, zero, zilch</ant></sens></entry> </entry_list>
This project brings together several examples of API programming with Max. The pandorabots.api patch contains an example of using curl to generate an XML response file, then converts XML to JSON using a Python script. The resulting JSON file is read into Max and parsed using the [js] object.
Here is an audio recording of my conversation (using Max) with a text chatbot named ‘Chomsky’
My voice gets recorded by Max then converted to text by the Google speech-api.
The text is passed to the Pandorabots API. The chatbot response gets spoken by the aka.speech external which uses the Mac OS built-in text-to-speech system.
Note: The above recording was processed with a ‘silence truncate’ effect because there were 3-5 second delays between responses. In realtime it has the feel of the Houston/Apollo dialogs.
pandorabots-api.maxpat (which handles chatbot responses) gets text input from speech-to-google-text-api2.maxpat – a patch that converts speech to text using the Google speech-API.
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=4690
The output (responses from chatbot) get sent to twitter-search-to-speech2.maxpat which “speaks” using the Mac OS text-to-speech program using the aka.speech external.
Max
The files for this project can be downloaded from the intenet-sensors archive at github
Update: Now part of Internet Sensors project: https://reactivemusic.net/?p=9834
original post
Looking into using an API to communicate with chatbots
Here is info from pandorabots FAQ: http://www.pandorabots.com/botmaster/en/~15580d493a63acc7fab1820f~/faq
Chomsky bot id: botid=b0dafd24ee35a477
Pandorabots has an API called XML-RPC that you can use to connect third-party software to our server. The XML-RPC has been used to connect Pandorabots to a wide variety of third-party applications, including Mified, mIRC, Second Life and Flash.
You may interact with Pandorabots as a webservice. Pandorabots offers consulting services supporting arbitrary web services for premium services customers. Please contact [email protected] for more information.
A client can interact with a Pandorabot by POST’ing to:
The form variables the client needs to POST are:
This will give a text/xml response. For example:
<result status="0" botid="c49b63239e34d1d5" custid="d2228e2eee12d255"> <input>hello</input> <that>Hi there!</that> </result>
The <input> and <that> elements are named after the corresponding AIML elements for bot input and last response. If there is an error,status will be non-zero and there will be a human readable <message> element included describing the error. For example:
<result status="1" custid="d2228e2eee12d255"> <input>hello</input> <message>Missing botid</message> </result>
Note that the values POST’d need to be form-urlencoded.
[update}
Here are two examples I just got to work using curl
curl -X POST --data "botid=b0dafd24ee35a477&input=hello" http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk-xml curl -X POST --data "botid=b0dafd24ee35a477&input=Where are you?" http://www.pandorabots.com/pandora/talk-xml
<result status="0" botid="b0dafd24ee35a477" custid="b3422b612633ac87"><input>Where are you?</input><that>I am in the computer at Pandorabots.com.</that></result>
Talking chat bots, Captain Kirk, A.L.I.C.E.
An excerpt from 1000 questions every mobile assistant should be able to answer.
An ad that sounds like science fiction.
http://www.alicebot.org/superbot.html
Using the Google speech API
(updated locally 1/21/2024 – changed binary path to sox for homebrew /opt/homebrew/bin/sox in [p call-google-speech]
Also changed some of the UI and logic for manual writing and sending.
(updated 1/21/2021)
This project demonstrates the Google speech-API. It records speech in Max, process it using the Google API, and displays the result in a Max [message] object.
https://github.com/tkzic/internet-sensors
folder: google-speech
sox: sox audio conversion program must be in the computer’s executable file path, ie., /usr/bin – or you can rewrite the [sprintf] input to [aka.shell] with the actual path. In our case we installed sox using Macports. The executable path is /opt/local/bin/sox – which is built into a message object in the subpatcher [call-google-speech]
get sox from: http://sox.sourceforge.net
note: this conversion may not be necessary with recent updates to Max and the Google speech API
Note: If you have a slow internet connection you may need to tweak the various delay times in the [call google-speech] sub patch.
Max [send] and [receive] objects pass data from this project to other projects that send Tweets from Max. Just run the patches at the same time.
Also, check out how this project is integrated into the Pandorabots chatbot API project
https://reactivemusic.net/?p=9834
Or anything else. The Google translation is amazingly accurate.