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Lesson 7 How to use the voice control function

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Lesson 7 How to use the voice control function

 

7.1 Voice control module

This product uses the function of using voice to control the movement of robot. The method we used comes from the SpeechRecognition of the Github project. Our installation script will automatically install this program and related dependent libraries. If you don’t operate our installation script, please install other dependent libraries before installing it manually:

sudo apt-get install -y swig

 

sudo apt-get install -y portaudio19-dev python3-all-dev python3-pyaudio

 

sudo pip3 install pyaudio

 

sudo apt-get install -y flac

 

sudo wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/files/sphinxbase/5prealpha/sphinxbase-5prealpha.tar.gz/download -O sphinxbase.tar.gz

 

sudo wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/cmusphinx/files/pocketsphinx/5prealpha/pocketsphinx-5prealpha.tar.gz/download -O pocketsphinx.tar.gz

 

sudo tar -xzvf sphinxbase.tar.gz

 

sudo tar -xzvf pocketsphinx.tar.gz

 

cd sphinxbase-5prealpha/ && ./configure -enable-fixed && make && sudo make install

 

sudo pip3 install pocketsphinx

 

cd pocketsphinx-5prealpha/ && ./configure && make && sudo make install

 

After installing the dependent libraries, you can install SpeechRecognition:

sudo pip3 install SpeechRecognition

 

7.2 Install microphone

Insert the microphone module into the USB port of the Raspberry Pi.

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7.3 Turn on the tracking function

Run the tracking program

1. Start up PiCar-b for about 1 minute.

2. When PiCar-b is started up, enter the IP address of your Raspberry Pi on the Google browser of the mobile phone or computer, and access Port 5000, for example: 192.168.3.44:5000. Then the web controller will be displayed on the browser.

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1. Click "SPEECH", PiCar-b starts voice detection.

2. Approach the microphone and say "'forward', 'backward', 'left', 'right', 'stop',  the microphone detection range is small, and the detection accuracy is poor.

3. After the Raspberry Pi detects the voice command, PiCar-b will act accordingly.

4. When you want to terminate the voice function, you can click "SPEECH" again.

 

7.4 The main code program

Please see the complete code in speech.py.

1. #!/usr/bin/python3  

2. import speech_recognition as sr  

3. import move  

4. import RPIservo  

5. import robotLight  

6. import time  

7.   

8. scGear = RPIservo.ServoCtrl()  

9. scGear.moveInit()  

10.   

11. move.setup()  

12.   

13. RL=robotLight.RobotLight()  

14.   

15. v_command=''  

16. speed_set = 80  

17.   

18. def setup():  

19.     move.setup()  

20.   

21.   

22. def run():  

23.     global v_command  

24.     # obtain audio from the microphone  

25.     r = sr.Recognizer()  

26.     with sr.Microphone(device_index =2,sample_rate=48000) as source:  

27.         r.record(source,duration=2)  

28.         #r.adjust_for_ambient_noise(source)  

29.         RL.both_off()  

30.         RL.yellow()  

31.         print("Command?")  

32.         audio = r.listen(source)  

33.         RL.both_off()  

34.         RL.blue()  

35.   

36.     try:  

37.         v_command = r.recognize_sphinx(audio,  

38.         keyword_entries=[('forward',1.0),('backward',1.0),  

39.         ('left',1.0),('right',1.0),('stop',1.0)])        #You can add your own command here  

40.         print(v_command)  

41.         RL.both_off()  

42.         RL.cyan()  

43.     except sr.UnknownValueError:  

44.         print("say again")  

45.         RL.both_off()  

46.         RL.red()  

47.     except sr.RequestError as e:  

48.         RL.both_off()  

49.         RL.red()  

50.         pass  

51.   

52.     #print('pre')  

53.   

54.     if 'forward' in v_command:  

55.         scGear.moveAngle(2, 0)  

56.         move.motor_left(1, 0, speed_set)  

57.         move.motor_right(1, 0, speed_set)  

58.         time.sleep(2)  

59.         move.motorStop()  

60.   

61.     elif 'backward' in v_command:  

62.         scGear.moveAngle(2, 0)  

63.         move.motor_left(1, 1, speed_set)  

64.         move.motor_right(1, 1, speed_set)  

65.         time.sleep(2)  

66.         move.motorStop()  

67.   

68.     elif 'left' in v_command:  

69.         scGear.moveAngle(2, 45)  

70.         move.motor_left(1, 0, speed_set)  

71.         move.motor_right(1, 0, speed_set)  

72.         time.sleep(2)  

73.         move.motorStop()  

74.         scGear.moveAngle(2, 0)  

75.   

76.     elif "right" in v_command:  

77.         scGear.moveAngle(2,-45)  

78.         move.motor_left(1, 0, speed_set)  

79.         move.motor_right(1, 0, speed_set)  

80.         time.sleep(2)  

81.         move.motorStop()  

82.         scGear.moveAngle(2, 0)  

83.   

84.     elif 'stop' in v_command:  

85.         move.motorStop()  

86.   

87.     else:  

88.         pass