Kaylee
Kaylee is a somewhat fancy speech recognizer that will run commands and perform other functions when a user speaks loosely preset sentences. It is based on Blather by Jezra, but adds a lot of features that go beyond the original purpose of Blather.
Requirements
- Python 3 (tested with 3.5, may work with older versions)
- pocketsphinx 5prealpha
- gstreamer-1.0 (and what ever plugin has pocketsphinx support)
- gstreamer-1.0 base plugins (required for ALSA)
- python-gobject (required for GStreamer and the GTK-based UI)
- python-requests (required for automatic language updating)
Note: it may also be required to install
pocketsphinx-hmm-en-hub4wsj
Usage
- Copy options.json.tmp to ~/.config/kaylee/options.json and fill the "commands" section of the file with sentences to speak and commands to run.
- Run kaylee.py. This will generate
~/.local/share/kaylee/sentences.corpus based on sentences in the
"commands" section of options.json, then use the Sphinx Knowledge
Base Tool to
create and save a new language model and dictionary.
- For GTK UI, run kaylee.py -i g
- To start a UI in 'continuous' listen mode, use the -c flag
- To use a microphone other than the system default, use the -m flag
- Start talking!
Note: default values for command-line arguments may be specified in the options.json file.
Examples
- To run Kaylee with the GTK UI, starting in continuous listen mode:
./kaylee.py -i g -c
- To run Kaylee with no UI and using a USB microphone recognized as
device 2:
./kaylee.py -m 2
- To have Kaylee pass each word of the matched sentence as a separate
argument to the executed command:
./kaylee.py -p
- To run a command when a valid sentence has been detected:
./kaylee.py --valid-sentence-command=/path/to/command
- To run a command when a invalid sentence has been detected:
./kaylee.py --invalid-sentence-command=/path/to/command
Finding the Device Number of a USB microphone
There are a few ways to find the device number of a USB microphone.
cat /proc/asound/cards
arecord -l