Yet Another Voice Module (Sphinx + Alexa)

[cowboysdude]

Sounds great… what is the response time like?

[whyjustin]

Sounds great… what is the response time like?

Response time of what? Loading time is pretty slow given the bootstrapping, but that should only happen once. The Sphinx client actively listens for commands as set in the JSON sphinx:commands dictionary and processes speech every time you pause. Alexa will record until you are quiet for over 2 seconds and then send it off the Amazon Voice Services. Guessing this response is similar to an Echo but I’ve never owned one.

[cowboysdude]

I own and Echo and it’s pretty quick :)

[d3r]

That’s pretty cool.
I have amazon alexa running alongside the MM2 on my pi too. Mine is just a simple work around and I have to click(I use a button) start listening each time I want to interact with it.

So it its always listening in your version?

[whyjustin]

So it its always listening in your version?

Yup, Sphinx is always listening (as long as Alexa is not listening). You can configure the command that invokes Alexa in the sphinx:commands dictionary. Any key in the object will be recognized by Sphinx and perform the action as configured by the value. For example:

"mirror mirror": {
  action: 'alexa'
}

Saying “mirror mirror” will trigger Alexa.

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[d3r]

I’ll give this a try when I get some free time this weekend.

[cowboysdude]

sed -i ‘s/“electron-prebuilt”: “latest”/“electron-prebuilt”: “1.2.8”/g’ package.json
sed: can’t read package.json: No such file or directory

[whyjustin]

sed -i ‘s/“electron-prebuilt”: “latest”/“electron-prebuilt”: “1.2.8”/g’ package.json
sed: can’t read package.json: No such file or directory

Answered in the GitHub issue https://github.com/whyjustin/magic-mirror-voice/issues/1

[d3r]

If I already have the alexa voice service set up on the pi is there an ‘easier’ way of setting this up or would it be better to start from scratch?
I’ll of course back up my sd card before playing with this.

[whyjustin]

If I already have the alexa voice service set up on the pi is there an ‘easier’ way of setting this up or would it be better to start from scratch?
I’ll of course back up my sd card before playing with this.

If you already have Alexa set up, then you should have all the required bits. Just update the configuration with your productId, dsn, clientId, clientSecret, alpnVersion, vlcPath, vlcPluginPath (all of which you acquired when setting up Alexa). For first run, I’d try to do serveronly mode so you don’t have to mess with the electron node version disparity.

node serveronly

then open a browser on the pi @ http://localhost:8080. If this works, then follow the Installation Notes.