Snowboy is a customized hotword and wake word detection toolkit that recognizes your voice, runs in real time and on Raspberry Pi.
Questions tagged [snowboy]
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Building umdl/pmdl after Snowboy closing
As KITT.AI announced in March they are closing all operations and support (leaving GitHub repository) at the end of the year.
So my question is how can we build custom keywords afrerwards? Is build tool included in public code on…

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/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lasound
While using the make command on snowboy in the folder snowboy/examples/C/ I got the following errors
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lf77blas
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lcblas
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -llapack_atlas
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find…

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Python SpeechRecognition Snowboy Integration Seems to be Broken
I am working at building a personal assistant in Python. It appears that the Python's SpeechRecognition library has built-in Snowboy recognition, but it appears to be broken. Here is my code. (Note that the problem is that the listen() function…

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Python: OSError: [Errno -9985] Device unavailable when using Snowboy and SpeechRecognition on Raspberry PI 3B+
I am building a personal assistant on my 3B+. What I am trying to do now is use Snowboy to detect my hotword (works flawlessly), then after the hotword is detected, use SpeechRecognizer to receive a voice command. Hotword detection works fine, the…

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Snowboy Hotword detection and Raspberry Pi: IOError: [Errno -9997] Invalid sample rate
Im trying to use snowboy hotword detection on my RPI 3b
im following this guide: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-snowboy/
When running the demo script: python demo.py saved_model.pmdl
i get this error:
Expression…

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Streaming webradio using PyAudio
I am fiddling around w/ snowboy and PyAudio. I want to automatically listen to a web radio, listen for a hotword via snowboy, record the succeeding X seconds, pass them via SpeechRecognition to the Google Speech-to-Text API and send an email with…

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SpeechRecognition hot-word not working properly
I am a beginner I don't know much about speech recognition and hotwords.
Till now I have been using SpeechRecognition module but its not so accurate as:
I have to wait for the program to access my mic
Its not accurate even tough I use…

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How to make a list of hot words/wake words execute different functions in Python snowboy module?
from snowboy import snowboydecoder
import threading
def hello():
print('Hello')
def greeting():
print('Im doing good.')
def det_hi():
detector = snowboydecoder.HotwordDetector('Hi.pmdl', sensitivity=0.5, audio_gain=1)
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how to modify google assistant pushtotalk like hotword
i am currently working on school project the goal is whenever i say 'pi'(machine name) 'sing for me'(google = assistant)
since it would be easy if i use hotword but it is currently unavailable and doesn't support our language
at…

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Snowboy module installation error on windows 10
ım using pip for install a module. So working usually. But I tried install snowboy module today. I got a error. I looked up internet but didnt find solutions.
My ide: Pycharm 2020 with anaconda
My os: windows 10 x64
codes:
(kurs)…

enes durmuş
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how to create an audio buffer to access mic input few seconds ago
i am trying to create a voice recognition function that can be activate with a hotword. i found this
snowboy package that can create a hotword listener that can listen full time and run a certain task on activation.
my problem i need to run a…

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How to use multiple wake words (snowboy) using python?
I'm building a personal voice assistant, and I wanna to make my AI listen to commands by wake words (I don't know if it is a good idea, so if not advice me) since SpeechRecogniton requires internet and its a little heavy and makes the AI response…

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SnowBoy hotword detection issue
Hi guys I'm trying to trigger the while loop in my code that starts speech recognition whenever the hotword "virgo" is said. The problem is that snowboy detects the hotword but I don't know how to execute the "while" loop once the hotword is…

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import snowboydetect generates errors
I've successfully installed snowboy but when I try to import snowboydetect an error just pops out.
Traceback (most recent call last): File "demo.py", line 1, in import snowboydecoder File…

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