What is the software of 'Peechamin' ?

Technologies which the software uses:

voice recognition: it recognizes non-reserved word which istalked by specific person.
voice filter: it filters the person's voice

The purpose of the software:

to talk with pets.

The software can communicate "a parrot" with human voice The software is the first software in Japan which can make a parrot taught and spoke words.

The intended users:

single student who wants to talk with another person at home
elder person who lives alone and wants to talk with another person
person who wants to feed pet, however he/she can not keep it in his/her house

How to use the software

to keep the name of you and the pet in mind in your computer

push microphone button
after a parrot's head inclined a little, speak to the parrot with his new name. for example, "Peechamin", " Baby", "Sindy".
the parrot will speak the name which you spoke to him/her
If you can hear it is correct, speak to him/her the name 3 times without microphone bottom.
If the OK button displayed in the screen, click the button. If you want to retry to change the name, click the "retry" button and push microphone button again.

< register the name of a user>

to keep your name in mind in computer, try the same procedure in doing like a parrot's name. Your can register your name whichever you want to call you, like Mike, Patty, Kazuko

< to keep words in mind to the pet>

Method1: Push microphone button. If the pet's head incline a little, wait 2 second, and speak to him/her a word which you want to him kept in remind. Say again when he/she can keep it in mind.
Method2: You don't need to push microphone button. Speak to the pet, with his/her name calling over 3 times until he/she inclines the head, after that, speak to him/her the word which you want him to know.
Method3: You don't need to push microphone button. Speak to the pet many times, until he/she can keep the word in mind.

When the pet speaks the word which you want to forget it from the pet's mind, hit the head of the pet with cursor. He/She will forget the word gradually.

First, you have to remind the pet words, and to make it a pair. For example,

you: Hello! the pet: Welcome!

< random conversation>

If you make the pet in mind some words, he/she will speak in random. For example,

" Hello Baby"! " Welcome honey!" "I love you!"

When you click the computer icon which located in the left side of the bottom screen, you can see information about the pet's condition and you can set parameters of his/her information.

IQ: the ability of the pet's IQ which can keep in mind
Feelings: if you talk to him/her frequently, his/her feelings will be good and reliability of conversation will be good.
Health: you can feed, take a bath, take a sleep, and take a tea, which make the pet healthy
Reliability: if the reliability goes high, he/she acts with convenient.
The number of word: the word which the pet could keep in its mind
The number of conversation: the number of conversation phrases whcih the pet could keep in its mind
The number of date: the number of date when you talked to the pet.
Color: you can paint him/her color whichever you like.
Microphone adjustment: you can adjust the volume of microphone
Screen saver: you can click him/her, it will be the screen saver.
To change the name of pet: if you want to change the name, you can use this function.
To make icon: if you want it to icon, you can click this.
To display large: you can display the pet in whole screen.

Last updated: 17 March 1998