Ask Magenta

Magenta Voice Platform interoperability enabler.

About

The skill connects Mycroft speaker to Magenta Voice Platform.

As Magenta Voice Platform supports German language only, the skill auto-translates user queries from English to German, and Platform answers - from German back to English.

Usage

To ask a single question: "Hey Mycroft, ask Magenta ", e.g: "Hey Mycroft, ask Magenta the weather in London"

To activate Magenta: "Hey Mycroft, launch Magenta". After the launch, all user queries will be sent to Magenta Platform.

To stop Magenta: "Hey Mycroft, terminate Magenta".

Configuration

Skill requires the following environment variables to operate:

• ENVIRONMENT: Magenta Voice target environment
• TENANT: Magenta Voice tenant
• API_KEY: API key to connect to the tenant
• BASE_URL: base URL of the Magenta Voice Platform API
• USER_API: URL path to user management API
• INVOKE_TEXT: URL path to send text API
• TESTING_SECRET: API token encoding secret

Mycroft STT/TTS in German

Here is the configuration to run STT/TTS in German:

STT: Mozilla DeepSpeech with a model from Aashish Agarwal TTS: Google Speech services

{
  "lang": "de-de",
  "max_allowed_core_version": 21.2,
  "stt": {
    "deepspeech_server": {
      "uri": "http://localhost:8080/stt"
    },
    "module": "deepspeech_server"
  },
  "tts": {
    "module": "google",
    "google": {
      "lang": "de"
    }
  }
}

Reference: https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io/docs/using-mycroft-ai/customizations/languages/german

Credits

• Deborah Dahl

• tvadim

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