Comments on: Speech to Text to APEX

By: Bill Dwight

Bill Dwight — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:24:19 +0000

Really, really cool! It was on my list to try this with Jott and now I don’t have to – many thanks for the time saver Tyler! (P.S. I had the same problem as #4 David Peake above – 404 – and the same solution – log out of Jott and edit the custom link. Would be interesting to know what is going on there since a typical user would be stymied by the experience and likely give up).

By: Bill Dwight

Bill Dwight — Sun, 18 May 2008 16:14:16 +0000

Looks really cool, but is your demo still up? When configuring the custom link, the redirect to:

http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/tyler.jott.register?userKey=…etc...

yielded a 404:

Not Found
The requested URL /pls/otn/tyler.jott.register was not found on this server.

Oracle-Application-Server-10g/10.1.3.0.0 Oracle-HTTP-Server Server at htmldb.oracle.com Port 80

By: ittichai

ittichai — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:04:58 +0000

I agree that there is no limit here. I tried to configured it by following the instructions, and it works well without any issue. Thanks Tyler.

As DBA, I think this can be used for database management and monitoring; for example, to check database export status, object count, etc. So I created a package where it just simply executing a defined SQL statement and send its output back.

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Part of Package
:
:
if lower(p_cmd) like ’select all object%’ then
select count(*) into l_return_val from all_objects;
end if;

return l_return_val;

:
:

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In the jot package, I just added the return result into the returned message.

l_return := sql_cmd.exec_sql_cmd(l_message);

htp.p(l_message||chr(13)||l_return);

It is not pretty but it seems to work fine.

Output sample-

Jott to APEX (APEX): Select all objects.
Select all objects.
44373

Thanks again for a great post.

Ittichai

By: Michael Roessler

Michael Roessler — Thu, 15 May 2008 19:34:18 +0000

Excellent information. Thank you for this!
This opens up a lot of ideas, especially if in future Jott could post into distinct table columns or APEX form fields, ie:
JOTT: “What do you want to Jott?”
Me: Buy stock
JOTT: Which stock?
Me: Oracle
JOTT: How many?
Me: 10,000
JOTT: Limit price?
Me: 21.75
JOTT: Got it!

By: Tyler Muth

Tyler Muth — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:22:21 +0000

Make sure you follow instructions carefully. A bunch of people have tried to skip the jott step and register null accounts (yeah, I’m talking to you Beowolf, Dummy, Dummy2, Foo, Bar, Blah, and Hello). I added some validation to the app to prevent this in the future.

By: David Peake

David Peake — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:07:28 +0000

Tyler,

I went through your instructions and it kept failing at Step 3. when I hit the “save” button it kept coming up with a 404 Error. I actually logged off Jott and back on again and there were multiple Custom Links configured so deleted all but one. When I edited the one remaining link it correctly went to your application.

Now I can Jott away with glee

Yet another marvelous example of using APEX in creative ways.

Thanks,
David

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Inside Oracle APEX: Integrate Speech Recognition into Oracle APEX — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:36:14 +0000

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By: Patrick Wolf

Patrick Wolf — Mon, 12 May 2008 09:13:26 +0000

Tyler, that’s really cool! To bad that’s not available here in Europe

Patrick

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 11 May 2008 22:12:22 +0000

Cool post, yet another example of the limitless possibilities offered through Apex. I could see some cool implementation of this that would really take my users by surprise. Thanks for the info.

Tony