Project Description

SoundWear is an AUI (Audio User Interface) developed for Windows 95/NT. It provides a natural computing environment for wearable computing that is unobtrusive and powerful. Most wearable computing systems are dependent on a GUI that is customized for desktop applications and not wearable computing. SoundWear gets around this problem by having it whole interface in the tactile and auditory domain. The only I/O that SoundWear uses is input from a Twiddler keyboard, audio I/O, and speech recognition.

Features of SoundWear Device Implementation

• Operating System
• Windows NT
• Windows 95
• System
• CPU 586/133
• Type II PCMCIA
• Sound Blaster Compatible Sound Card (full duplex)
• 16MB+ RAM
• 1GB+ Hard Disk
• Twiddler Corded Keyboard
• HeadSet Mic/Earphone setup
• Applications
• Continous Record/Playback of Audio
• Archival/Retrieval of Audio Data
• Asyncronous/Syncronous Communication
• RealAudio
• Organizer
• Support for the following Internet Standards
• Telnet, HTTP,FTP,POP3,SMTP
• Interface Specifics
• 3D Audio Spatialization of information stream
• Speaker Independent Speech Recognition
• CD Quality Sound

Usability Studies

• Under Construction

Info Related to SoundWear Development

• Choosing Windows as your OS?
• Audio Capture Under WIN32

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