fiddle~ comes with pd (look in the "extra" folder), there is a help 
patch that will explain how it works.
hope this helps.
marius.

Hugh Sung wrote:
> i'm not familiar with that program - can you provide a link to fiddle~, 
> or any other program that can easily do what i'm looking for with all 
> the various parameters?
> 
> Many thanks!
> 
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:50 PM, marius schebella 
> <marius.schebella@gmail.com <mailto:marius.schebella@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hugh Sung wrote:
> 
>         Actually, this isn't for speech recognition - i'm trying to come
>         up with a simple way to use key triggers to activate visuals.
> 
>         For example:  if the piano plays A440, i'm presuming PD can be
>         configured to recognize that pitch with a microphone input and
>         then echo out a text string - the letter "A", perhaps.
> 
> 
>     in that case, you best use fiddle~. what's the other program? does
>     it accept network communication? then you can send the letters over
>     tcp or udp connection (netsend).
>     marius.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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