Voice/motion control

Simon · May 11, 2016, 7:20 AM

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 · May 11, 2016, 7:29 AM

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

PtrBld · May 11, 2016, 7:57 AM

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 · May 11, 2016, 7:58 AM

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 · May 11, 2016, 10:44 AM

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

coolbotic · May 11, 2016, 3:20 PM

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

Simon · May 11, 2016, 4:15 PM

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

matt08 · Jun 1, 2016, 12:56 PM

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

mochman · Jun 4, 2016, 3:26 AM

@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.

Mitchfarino · Jun 8, 2016, 12:29 PM

@MichMich This guy has done it, using your MM2

https://howchoo.com/g/yti5mmq0ntu/add-voice-controls-to-your-raspberry-pi-using-jasper