If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. |
|
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
#1
|
|||
|
|||
Audio?
I'm creating a database that will use a scanner to scan barcodes. The scanner
is pretty simple, nothing complicated. The scanner will be used to scan barcodes on boxes and once scanned, it will automatically populate a field in Access. My questions is, is it possible to have audio with the scanner that will announce the barcode number? Does Access have this feature? Like I said, the scanner is simple, I don't need to program it or anything. I can use it with Word or Excel. I scan a bar code for example, and if Word is up, the barcode number will automatically appear on the Word document. Does anyone know if Access has the feature of audio with a scanner attached? Thanks. |
#2
|
|||
|
|||
Audio?
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:10:01 -0700, Antney
wrote: Let me make sure I understand. You scan a barcode into a textbox, and then you want Access to automatically "speak" that value? No, there is no built-in functionality that can do that. You may want to look at phone system software that can read the input from a phone and speak "you entered the account number 123456789 - do you want to proceed?" Not for the faint of heart. -Tom. Microsoft Access MVP I'm creating a database that will use a scanner to scan barcodes. The scanner is pretty simple, nothing complicated. The scanner will be used to scan barcodes on boxes and once scanned, it will automatically populate a field in Access. My questions is, is it possible to have audio with the scanner that will announce the barcode number? Does Access have this feature? Like I said, the scanner is simple, I don't need to program it or anything. I can use it with Word or Excel. I scan a bar code for example, and if Word is up, the barcode number will automatically appear on the Word document. Does anyone know if Access has the feature of audio with a scanner attached? Thanks. |
#3
|
|||
|
|||
Audio?
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:10:01 -0700, Antney
wrote: I'm creating a database that will use a scanner to scan barcodes. The scanner is pretty simple, nothing complicated. The scanner will be used to scan barcodes on boxes and once scanned, it will automatically populate a field in Access. My questions is, is it possible to have audio with the scanner that will announce the barcode number? Does Access have this feature? Like I said, the scanner is simple, I don't need to program it or anything. I can use it with Word or Excel. I scan a bar code for example, and if Word is up, the barcode number will automatically appear on the Word document. Does anyone know if Access has the feature of audio with a scanner attached? Thanks. There's nothing built in to Access. You may be able to get some third party software such as Dragon Naturally Speaking (not a recommendation, just one that I've heard of); I'm not sure how to interface it with Access. Good luck. -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
#4
|
|||
|
|||
Audio?
On Oct 30, 2:10*am, Antney wrote:
I'm creating a database that will use a scanner to scan barcodes. The scanner is pretty simple, nothing complicated. The scanner will be used to scan barcodes on boxes and once scanned, it will automatically populate a field in Access. My questions is, is it possible to have audio with the scanner that will announce the barcode number? Does Access have this feature? Like I said, the scanner is simple, I don't need to program it or anything. I can use it with Word or Excel. I scan a bar code for example, and if Word is up, the barcode number will automatically appear on the Word document. Does anyone know if Access has the feature of audio with a scanner attached? Thanks. Hi Ant I saw this and it prompted me to try a bit of lateral thinking. If (and it's a big if, I suppose) you can get hold of a wav file for each of the 0 - 9 digits then, with appropriate parsing and Select Case usage you might get something like this to work where the code plays each sound in turn (it does actually play the sounds I used as a test). Public Function MySounds() Dim xx As Double Dim strSound As String strSound = "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" strSound = strSound & " c:\windows\media\chimes.wav" strSound = strSound & " c:\windows\media\chord.wav" strSound = strSound & " c:\windows\media\ringin.wav" xx = Shell(strSound, vbHide) End Function where you build your series of wav sounds according to the digits in the bar code. Worth a try - probably a lot simpler than trying to use speech recognition. Jeff. |
#5
|
|||
|
|||
Audio?
On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:16:24 -0700 (PDT), jbguernsey
wrote: On Oct 30, 2:10*am, Antney wrote: I'm creating a database that will use a scanner to scan barcodes. The scanner is pretty simple, nothing complicated. The scanner will be used to scan barcodes on boxes and once scanned, it will automatically populate a field in Access. My questions is, is it possible to have audio with the scanner that will announce the barcode number? Does Access have this feature? Like I said, the scanner is simple, I don't need to program it or anything. I can use it with Word or Excel. I scan a bar code for example, and if Word is up, the barcode number will automatically appear on the Word document. Does anyone know if Access has the feature of audio with a scanner attached? Thanks. Hi Ant I saw this and it prompted me to try a bit of lateral thinking. If (and it's a big if, I suppose) you can get hold of a wav file for each of the 0 - 9 digits then, with appropriate parsing and Select Case usage you might get something like this to work where the code plays each sound in turn (it does actually play the sounds I used as a test). Public Function MySounds() Dim xx As Double Dim strSound As String strSound = "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" strSound = strSound & " c:\windows\media\chimes.wav" strSound = strSound & " c:\windows\media\chord.wav" strSound = strSound & " c:\windows\media\ringin.wav" xx = Shell(strSound, vbHide) End Function Or even record the ten digits yourself, if you have a microphone; create a little ten row table with an Integer primary key, values zero through 9, and the filename of the .wav file of each. Then open a recordset based on the table, and step through the text string returned by the scanner and build up strSound just as you're suggesting here. -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
#6
|
|||
|
|||
Audio?
Thanks, I will try this.
"jbguernsey" wrote: On Oct 30, 2:10 am, Antney wrote: I'm creating a database that will use a scanner to scan barcodes. The scanner is pretty simple, nothing complicated. The scanner will be used to scan barcodes on boxes and once scanned, it will automatically populate a field in Access. My questions is, is it possible to have audio with the scanner that will announce the barcode number? Does Access have this feature? Like I said, the scanner is simple, I don't need to program it or anything. I can use it with Word or Excel. I scan a bar code for example, and if Word is up, the barcode number will automatically appear on the Word document. Does anyone know if Access has the feature of audio with a scanner attached? Thanks. Hi Ant I saw this and it prompted me to try a bit of lateral thinking. If (and it's a big if, I suppose) you can get hold of a wav file for each of the 0 - 9 digits then, with appropriate parsing and Select Case usage you might get something like this to work where the code plays each sound in turn (it does actually play the sounds I used as a test). Public Function MySounds() Dim xx As Double Dim strSound As String strSound = "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" strSound = strSound & " c:\windows\media\chimes.wav" strSound = strSound & " c:\windows\media\chord.wav" strSound = strSound & " c:\windows\media\ringin.wav" xx = Shell(strSound, vbHide) End Function where you build your series of wav sounds according to the digits in the bar code. Worth a try - probably a lot simpler than trying to use speech recognition. Jeff. |
#7
|
|||
|
|||
Audio?
Thanks!
"John W. Vinson" wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:16:24 -0700 (PDT), jbguernsey wrote: On Oct 30, 2:10 am, Antney wrote: I'm creating a database that will use a scanner to scan barcodes. The scanner is pretty simple, nothing complicated. The scanner will be used to scan barcodes on boxes and once scanned, it will automatically populate a field in Access. My questions is, is it possible to have audio with the scanner that will announce the barcode number? Does Access have this feature? Like I said, the scanner is simple, I don't need to program it or anything. I can use it with Word or Excel. I scan a bar code for example, and if Word is up, the barcode number will automatically appear on the Word document. Does anyone know if Access has the feature of audio with a scanner attached? Thanks. Hi Ant I saw this and it prompted me to try a bit of lateral thinking. If (and it's a big if, I suppose) you can get hold of a wav file for each of the 0 - 9 digits then, with appropriate parsing and Select Case usage you might get something like this to work where the code plays each sound in turn (it does actually play the sounds I used as a test). Public Function MySounds() Dim xx As Double Dim strSound As String strSound = "C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe" strSound = strSound & " c:\windows\media\chimes.wav" strSound = strSound & " c:\windows\media\chord.wav" strSound = strSound & " c:\windows\media\ringin.wav" xx = Shell(strSound, vbHide) End Function Or even record the ten digits yourself, if you have a microphone; create a little ten row table with an Integer primary key, values zero through 9, and the filename of the .wav file of each. Then open a recordset based on the table, and step through the text string returned by the scanner and build up strSound just as you're suggesting here. -- John W. Vinson [MVP] |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|