#This final year project is focused on providing alternative ways to communicate with the computer on Linux platform

Built on top of

• Julius
• OpenCV
• Festival
• Tornado

###Features

• Controls through Speech Recognition (this is not an exhaustive list, many more features are added)
• Media player controls such as play, pause, next song, previous song. Currently Rhythmbox is supported.
• Increase or Reduce Brightness, Lock Computer
• Browse web
• Controls through Web Camera
• Pauses video when the face is turned away from screen (Supports only Totem)
• Seeking video using gesture recognition (Supports only Totem)
• Automatically locks computer when the user is not recognized for a particular amount of time

Installation Procedure

This is outdated. Multiple changes in the directory structure need an updated install procedure.

• Clone the project
• Install julius, julius-voxforge
• Command for running julius : julius -input mic -C julius.jconf | python -u getcommand.py
• Install festival
• Install festlex-cmu
• Install the downloaded voice file : cd /usr/share/festival/voices/english/ sudo wget -c http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/cmu_arctic/packed/cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2 sudo tar jxf cmu_us_clb_arctic-0.95-release.tar.bz2 sudo ln -s cmu_us_slt_arctic cmu_us_slt_arctic_clunits sudo cp /etc/festival.scm /etc/festival.scm.backup sudo echo "(set! voice_default 'voice_cmu_us_slt_arctic_clunits)" >> /etc/festival.scm
• Install xbacklight for brightness control from terminal
• Installed Tornado for the webserver stuff. The commands are after unzipping the package, python setup.py build sudo python setup.py install
• Install OpenCV
• Install python-opencv
• Install python-numpy
• Install lxml
• Install python-dev

Below demo was created at a very early stage of the project. After many changes, some features are removed while many others are added.

Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAmQRpxrQlk

MIT Licence