MMM-voice

darrene

Thank you! All good - I’m now gong through the words.json - fabulous!

gismo2006

Hi,

At present I try to install the MMM-voice module. I have everything done like it is written in the readme file on Github. Everthing is fine till step3 (installing Pocketsphinx. There is this error: In a second try I try what @Nonamexp say (…I’ve tried the command ‘sudo chmod 777 /opt /home/pi/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-voice’ and than ‘bash dependencies.sh’ and it works!) BUT that didn’t work by me. Can someone explain me what happend and what I could do?

Greets gismo

strawberry 3.141

@gismo2006 this sounds for me that you run the installer more than once right? There is a condition if the directory pocketsphinx exists do git pull and it seems that the branch doesn’t exist anymore. so try to delete the pocketsphinx directory and the node_modules directory in MMM-voice if you have one

gismo2006

@strawberry-3-141 Hi, sorry, but no :-) What Happyend at my First try. Then I try what @Nonamexp post and then I Try your installer again… there are the same problem.

But just in this moment durring I write this, I think you wasn`t wrong. I remember I have tested some days ago Alexander and Steven Hicksons Suite. And there I have to install it.

I will test, what you write today evening and will post an answer.

Thank you for your helping :-)

strawberry 3.141

@gismo2006 delete pocketsphinx, sphinxbase and ~/MagicMirror/modules/MMM-voice/node_modules directories and run the installer again, otherwise write me a private message and we will get this running

Baltibu

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gismo2006

@strawberry-3-141

Hi,
I have tested your post an I will say Thnks!!! It has install correctly… Now i will test the module.

But I have a little question, too. On Github I see some translation files for Englich and German. But how can I use your module in German? Have I antything to chance in module code?

greets gismo

strawberry 3.141

@gismo2006 it’s not supported to recognize other language commands than english, just the messages are translated

gismo2006

@strawberry-3-141

Ok, no problem…

I have tested this module now for a several time. And I do not know what is wrong but I decieded to didn’t use it at the moment.

The install progress was fine, the config file was fine and the mirrror started. everything is displayed fine. But the behaviuor is the problem. Sometimes it didn’t regonize anything. Sometimes it will do at first nothing and then some minuts later suddenly the module, for example “hide modules”. Oh and in the error log was only 11111 written

Greets gismo

strawberry 3.141

@gismo2006 here are some tips to improve the experience:

it’s necessary to have a proper power supply, in order to decrease the response time, otherwise the cpu will be underclocked and this is contra productive for an cpu intensive task (for rpi 3 it’s recommended to use at least 2.5A for normal usage, I’m using 3A)
look into the MMM-voice.dic file how you need to spell the words correctly, the language model is based for native speakers and dialects can lead to false positives.
a cheap microphone can lead to false positive as well, by sending an unclean audio stream.
speaking louder gave me better results.
pocketsphinx also tries to match background noise to words, so short words like on, off, one, etc. are getting recognized without saying anything
so those false positives get spread within your commands and will lead to unwanted actions e.g. you say MAGIC MIRROR VOICE to enter the voice mode it propably recognizes MAGIC ON MIRROR VOICE and then the mirror wont start because the keyword must be recognized together without any other word between or it recognizes MAGIC MIRROR OF VOICE and then it will not switch to mode voice because the mode has to be right after the keyword or sentence
the error log gets created from pocketsphinx, so those numbers are not from my side
in order to test what the mirror detects, you can use the config option debug: true but don’t use this in production it will generate a huge logfile over time