Voice Controlled Lighting

    Vocus


Vocus
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Voice Controlled Lighting System
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Vocus is a Windows-based application for your PC, designed to let you tell your lights what to do, by allowing vocal commands to control your DMX lighting system .

Vocus was developed to make the process of focussing lights on your own quicker and simpler. Rather than hauling your console down to the stage, then climbing up and down ladders to change levels, you simply plug any standard microphone into your computer, (wireless mics are ideal), and use standard commands to control DMX levels. Vocus then converts your voice commands into DMX signals, and outputs them to your dimmers or moving lights through your USB or Ethernet port.

Compatible equipment includes Enttec's Open DMX USB Interface and DMXEthergate, Art-Net enabled interfaces, and even LightFactory - Enttec's Lighting Control Software package. When using LightFactory with Vocus, you can control the intensity of whatever device is allocated to a LightFactory Control Channel. This can be a single dimmer, groups of dimmers soft-patched together, an intelligent fixture – any DMX controlled device!

Vocus uses voice recognition software that is trained by you in your own voice, so it always understands your commands. The commands are based on logical, standard commands, such as "Channel 7 at full" and "Channel 4 thru 46 fade to 50", making it very easy to operate. You can operate up to 512 channels, making it ideal for theatres, churches, schools, pub gigs - just about anywhere you have a DMX control system and a computer!

 

Features:

  • Allows voice commands to set DMX levels
  • Controls up to 512 channels
  • Recognises standard control commands, ie - Channel 7 at Full, Channel 4 thru 46 fade to 50, Channel 187 at zero etc.
  • Compatible with Open DMX USB Interface ( DMX USB Pro support available soon)
  • Ethernet output can be ESP (Enttec's DMX over Ethernet protocol) or ArtNet
  • Can interface with LightFactory and Martin LightJockey
  • Voice recognition software is trained by you, in your own voice, making it very reliable
  • Demo version available for free trial (single channel only, random channel number)
Downloads:
Vocus brochure (pdf file)
Vocus Quick Start Guide (pdf file)
Vocus – Demo version that includes SAPI voice-recognition for Windows (45Mb zip file)
Vocus - Demo version only (1.5Mb zip file)


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Last updated: Wednesday 1 November, 2006