Speech recognition for the Sugar Learning Platform.

##What is this about? Sugar Listens is a GSoC 2014 project that seeks to provide speech recognition capabilities to Sugar Activity developers. For more information, please refer to the project proposal.

##Setup and Run

1. Install the dependencies. If you are using Fedora 20 like I am it is as simple as running:

sudo yum install pocketsphinx pocketsphinx-libs pocketsphinx-plugin pocketsphinx-devel pocketsphinx-python pocketsphinx-models git python-setuptools python-lockfile

2. Clone this repository:

git clone https://github.com/rparrapy/sugarlistens.git

3. Install the module with setuptools:

cd sugarlistens
python setup.py develop

4. Sugar Listens uses D-Bus' system bus to communicate with Sugar Activities. For this to work, you must enable it by adding a few lines to the existing policy element of /etc/dbus-1/system.conf:

<policy context="default">
   ...
   <!-- This lines are needed for Sugar Listens to work -->
   <allow own="org.sugarlabs.listens.recognizer"/>
   <allow send_destination="org.sugarlabs.listens.recognizer"/>
   <allow receive_sender="org.sugarlabs.listens.recognizer"/>
<policy context="default">

5. Run Sugar Listens in a terminal window:

python sugarlistens/sugarlistens/recognizer.py

6. Test it by running one of the following projects:

• Livedemo: it doesn't get much simpler than this.
• Maze: ready to play a game?
• Sugar: try running your favorite Sugar Activities with your voice. Pretty cool, huh?

##Thanks Current implementation is based on the Pocketsphinx speech recognition engine, so thanks to the guys at CMU that made this possible.