[DaveSauce]

I'll be blunt. What I'm trying to do is create a mp3 playing computer that responds to voice commands. Actually, the voice command idea was a new thought, but now it's in my head and I really want to do it.

I recently discovered that Java has a speech recognition API included in it. I know, "lol java sux." At the moment, java is the only language I know enough to do something like this in, so java it is. The fact that it has a speech API really simplifies things, since I can really customize the recognition to the commands I need. Also, I don't have to hack some other program into doing my bidding....

So what I want to know is how do I work this into a plugin for winamp or xmms? I'm currently working on a windows machine, so first is winamp. but I want to put this on a redhat machine in the future, so I'll need to use xmms.

What I REALLY want to know is if I can program the plugin in java. If not, what do I need in order to make the java speech program work with the mp3 player?

[XWRed1]

XMMS has named pipes and a remote control program that you can manipulate from your Java app. You can't write an xmms plugin in pure Java. The plugins are shared libraries that xmms loads, presumably written in C.