Homer Controller - Voice Command Listener

This app enables sending voice commands to graphql-api. On that note, before installing this app please read and setup compose. This is mandatory for this application to work!

Getting Started

• MacOSX setup:

  • brew install portaudio
    • Necessary for capturing microphone input
  • brew install automake

• Linux (including Raspberry Pi) setup:

  • sudo apt install libasound2-dev portaudio19-dev libportaudio2 libportaudiocpp0 ffmpeg
  • sudo apt-get install python-pyaudio python3-pyaudio
    • Necessary for capturing microphone input
  • sudo apt-get install -y python python-dev python-pip build-essential swig git libpulse-dev

• For all OSs:

  • pip3 install -r requirements.txt
  • python3 main.py

Using PocketSpinx for voice recognition

• This project is currently using recognizer.recognize_google(audio). However, you can also use recognizer.recognize_sphinx as an open source alternative. To do that follow the steps bellow:

  • Install PocketSpinx
  • Raspberry Pi only:
    • Follow the steps here
    • sudo apt-get install xsel xclip flac
    • Remove line from %(name)s=probesysfs,provider=hidinput from ~/.kivy/config.ini
    • Follow the steps here
    • Create alias say=espeak -ven-us inside ~/.bashrc