Shared Voice Interface

This project provides system-wide shared Speech to Text Engine to:

1. Add voice commands to any Desktop App (via Extension/Addon/Plugin ex.Code or integrate into your own app like TalkGPT).
2. Run your Automation scripts/command-line commands with personalized voice commands(uses a JSON file to link voice commands to programmatic execution).

Watch Demo

Built-In Features

RealTime transcription - starts recording when a speaker says something, stops recording if speaker stops speaking for 0.5sec.

Google Anything - start by saying google followed by 'your_search_query' (ex: Google what's the weather outside?)

Architecture

Software Environment

python 3.9.9
Nodejs 18.9
OS: Linux (very likely it will work on OSX without any tweaks. On Windows bash scripts(in ./universal-commands/scripts and anywhere in src) will have to converted into batch scripts)

Hardware Config used during Development and Execution

System Ram : 8Gb (2x4Gb) [Recommended > 16Gb]
Graphic card : Nvidia Graphics MX350(Pascal Architecture, CUDA capability 6.1, VRAM 2GB)
Microphone : External Bluetooth Headeset with Microphone Arm (Recommended). Avoid using in-built microphone of your laptop.

Installation

git clone git@github.com:UmangRajpara13/able.git
cd ./able/listen
python3 -m venv venv
source "venv/bin/activate"
pip install -r requirements.txt
deactivate
cd ..
npm install

The project uses Whisper by OpenAI which requires the command-line tool ffmpeg to be installed on your system, which is available from most package managers:

# on Ubuntu or Debian
sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg

# on Arch Linux
sudo pacman -S ffmpeg

# on MacOS using Homebrew (https://brew.sh/)
brew install ffmpeg

# on Windows using Chocolatey (https://chocolatey.org/)
choco install ffmpeg

# on Windows using Scoop (https://scoop.sh/)
scoop install ffmpeg

Run

In 1st Terminal window

npm run engine

and in 2nd Terminal window.

npm run listen

Avoid using in-built microphone of your laptop, External headset with Microphone is recommended