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Yet Another Voice Module (Sphinx + Alexa)

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  • D Offline
    d3r
    last edited by Sep 14, 2016, 12:03 AM

    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?

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      whyjustin
      last edited by paviro Sep 27, 2016, 8:52 PM Sep 14, 2016, 12:07 AM

      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.


      Note from admin: Please use Markdown on code snippets for easier reading!

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        d3r
        last edited by Sep 14, 2016, 12:40 AM

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

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          cowboysdude Module Developer
          last edited by Sep 14, 2016, 1:27 AM

          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

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            whyjustin
            last edited by Sep 14, 2016, 1:29 AM

            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

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              d3r
              last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 5:54 PM

              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.

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                whyjustin
                last edited by Sep 16, 2016, 10:30 PM

                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.

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                  d3r @whyjustin
                  last edited by d3r Sep 18, 2016, 11:32 AM Sep 18, 2016, 11:25 AM

                  @whyjustin said in Yet Another Voice Module (Sphinx + Alexa):

                  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.
                  Thank you, I got till that part and the modules are currently loading. Your module and 2 others haven’t loaded yet. How long should it usually take?
                  I am using the firefox iceweasel browser.
                  Edit: I reloaded the page and not all my modules are loaded except the voice one. Which makes sense because I haven’t run the npm install from the module directory yet. Will do that and post back.

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                    d3r @d3r
                    last edited by Sep 18, 2016, 4:39 PM

                    @whyjustin
                    I was able to set up the module but I think I did a few things wrong. I think I have the vlcPluginpath wrong in my configuration. I am not sure where it is located. I believe it is here "vlcPluginPath: ‘/usr/lib/vlc/plugins’ " but I am not sure what exacly I should be looking for. When the module loads, there is currently nothing under the module. If I reload the page it switches to “loading…” and is stuck on “loading…”
                    Also , once I run node serveronly and open up the localhhost page the voice module does start to load but I get the following error:
                    `
                    Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 5005
                    Unable to run Alexa Java Client: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open './magic-mirror-voice/alexa-certificate-generator/certs/server/node.key

                    I went to that directory and the files do exist. I used the script to generate them. My understanding is sphinx is working but there’s something wrong with the alexa part. I’m not really sure what I should do next. I’ll keep playing with it, hopefully I’ll get it to work.

                    Full log here:

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                      whyjustin
                      last edited by Sep 18, 2016, 6:20 PM

                      I went to that directory and the files do exist. I used the script to generate them. My understanding is sphinx is working but there’s something wrong with the alexa part.

                      From the logs this seems to be true. Thanks for the log, it makes debugging much easier. As mentioned in OP, my life is pretty hectic right now. I’m hoping to have some chance to look into this over the next week but may not be able to provide the optimal feedback cycle for you. Thanks for the patience.

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