EVC is a tool for controlling a computer by speaking commands to it.

Features:

• controls the desktop and applications by simulating key presses
• suitable for everything except fast text entry (dictation)
• should work with any automatic speech recognition (ASR) system that can print transcribed utterances to stdout as text (scripts for kaldi and cmu pocketsphinx are provided)
• simple but powerful command language
• clean YAML-based config for command definitions, see example config
• command line prompt for visual and audio feedback (TODO: screenshot)
• command groups for applications auto-enabled based on process name or window title

Installing prerequisites on Ubuntu:

sudo apt install docker.io python3-click python3-termcolor python3-pygame libasound2-dev \
                 python3-pyaudio python3-dev python3-tk python3-psutil xdotool

Build the Kaldi ASR docker image (this can take half an hour, as it involves building Kaldi from source):

./build-kaldi.sh

mkdir ~/.evc-voice-commander
cp example_config/* ~/.evc-voice-commander/
vim ~/.evc-voice-commander/modes.yaml

./evc-voice-commander