Yet Another Voice Module (Sphinx + Alexa)

whyjustin

@d3r said in Yet Another Voice Module (Sphinx + Alexa):

Your module is awesome! This is really good.

Thanks, good to hear it’s working. Let me know if you have any other difficulties or feature requests. As mentioned to @cowboysdude, it is easiest for me to track these through GitHub Issues. Cheers.

clumsy_ninja

@whyjustin What kind of visual feedback does it display on the mirror?

d3r

@clumsy_ninja This module has no visual feedback. You only get an audio prompt which indicates that alexa is listening and a second audio prompt when the audio stops.

clumsy_ninja

@d3r Thanks. I’ve been looking at AlexaPi and i’m not sure how similar the code is but i did notice is has led’s indicating the status (listening, processing, speaking).
https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi

What i really want to achieve is a module for the mirror which shows the visual feedback with a microphone icon and also show the GUI cards alexa service returns. Problem is I’m not sure how to make this hahah I’m only use to writing in C and Java.

whyjustin

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

notice is has led’s indicating the status (listening, processing, speaking).
https://github.com/alexa-pi/AlexaPi

IIRC I exposed some of this stuff in the plugin, it shouldn’t be too hard to provide UI feedback for these events. Look at the events passed to the Java client here: https://github.com/whyjustin/magic-mirror-voice/blob/master/node_helper.js#L49. If you get anything working, PRs welcome.

What i really want to achieve is a module for the mirror which shows the visual feedback with a microphone icon and also show the GUI cards alexa service returns. Problem is I’m not sure how to make this hahah I’m only use to writing in C and Java.

GUI Cards are going to take more work.

clumsy_ninja

@whyjustin Thanks for that, I’m new to javascript myself but I’m trying to recruit a mate to give us a hand haha. I’ll post something back if I get anything working.

clumsy_ninja

@whyjustin Is it possible to change the activation work in your alexa? I remember seeing it defined in json somewhere but does it require voice training or something?

lb-rezende

Hi,

I’m having a problem installing this module and maybe someone could help me, because this is my first experience with Linux and the Magic Mirror.

I followed the link describe in the Github to install Alexa. It was everything ok, I talked to her at the end.

I followed the rest of the instructions to install the module, although when I start the Magic Mirror it keeps at “loading” and after a while the application crash.

The last message is:
Listening for transport dt_socket at address: 5005
electron js/electron.js: …/src/java.cpp:105: v8::Localv8::Value Java::ensureJvm(): Assertion `result->IsNull()’ failed.

How can I solve it?

Thanks in advance.

whyjustin

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

@whyjustin Is it possible to change the activation work in your alexa? I remember seeing it defined in json somewhere but does it require voice training or something?

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

If you edit the above you can adjust the activation of Alexa. Haven’t spent much time with this project recently but IIRC you have to remove sphinx-model-generator/commands.dic and sphinx-model-generator/commands.lm when changing the commands.

whyjustin

@lb-rezende said in Yet Another Voice Module (Sphinx + Alexa):

electron js/electron.js: …/src/java.cpp:105: v8::Localv8::Value Java::ensureJvm(): Assertion `result->IsNull()’ failed.

If I were to hazard a guess the JDK isn’t installed on your machine although you previously said that you were able to verify Alexa was working. Wild guess would be to verify the steps in [0] were followed to downgrade the electron client although this may not be related.

[0] https://github.com/whyjustin/magic-mirror-voice#installation-notes