Voice/motion control

[coolbotic]

Hope it works now haha !

[Simon]

Hi
i haven’t put voice control into my mirror but have played around with it for a kitchen based recipe generator. (Say Baked Alaska and the display pulled a recipe off BBC food website and displayed it. )

Basically voice recognition is fairly simple. What is difficult is getting it to start listening.
The easiest way of doing it is to use the google api Here is a good source. http://stevenhickson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/voice-command-v30-for-raspberry-pi.html

The problem I had when I played with this is that. It records what you say and sends it to google for recognition. If you want a system that is always listening then you would end up sending recordings to google 24/7. . You could try using http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/ to recognize an initial key word then turn on google recognition. But I couldn’t really get a great response from that. However I have a strong Irish accent which doesn’t help :)
So you might have more luck. Also a good microphone will make your life easier.

[MichMich]

@Simon Hi Simon. Do you know if the google API is supported under Electron?

[PtrBld]

It seems that Google has removed this feature for electron, however when you use chromium together with MM² it may works… See this stackoverflow question.

[Simon]

Don’t know. I coded with it in python. To tell you the truth I have only heard of Electron about 10 minutes ago :) My magic mirror is coded in python (far more hacky and inelegant then your solution) but it entertained me for a while. :)

[paviro]

electron-speech, alexa-voice-service & pocketsphinx might be worth a look :)

[coolbotic]

@Simon Have you posted you code anywhere would love to see it!!!

[Simon]

@coolbotic No it’s not very pretty :) I’ll see what I can do

[matt08]

What do you think about using wit.ai to voice control MM?
Free, unlimited API that could be implemented

[mochman]

@coolbotic I just made a motion control module. It’s no where near as intricate as leapmotion though. It just detects hand movements, using 2 ultrasonic sensors and give you a swipe left, right, and press notification. If you have any ideas on how to improve it, please let me know.