Voice control (sphinx+festival)

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Preliminary steps

We use CMU Pocket Sphinx for speech recognition developed on Carnegie Mellon University, and Festival Speech Synthesis System for text speech developed on University of Edinburgh.

Currently the ROS package pocketsphinx is available for groovy and hydro distributions. We can install it executing the next command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install ros-"groovy or hydro"-pocketsphinx

We have to install the ubuntu package CMU Pocket Sphinx in previous ROS distributions. We will execute the next command in a terminal to install it:

sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-pocketsphinx

Moreover for previous ROS distributions, we have to download the ROS stack "rharmony" by University of Albany in order to integrate CMU Pocket Sphinx in ROS. We will place in the ROS workspace and we will execute the next commands in a terminal:

svn checkout http://albany-ros-pkg.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/rharmony
rosmake --rosdep-install pocketsphinx

Festival Speech Synthesis System is intigrated in the ROS package sound_play.

Speech recognition

First, we will execute the next command in a terminal within our workspace in order to create a package named "voz_fer" that will content the voice control programs:

roscreate-pkg voz_fer pocketsphinx sound_play std_msgs roscpp

We have to select the vocabulary that we use to control the robot. We use short sentences for the orders in order to reduce the recognition mistakes. We will create a file named "comandos_voz.txt" within the folder "config" of the created package with the content that is show below (each sentence must be in a new line):

start speech
stop speech
go forward
go back
turn left
turn right
speed up
slow down
rotate left
rotate right
stop
point beer
point cocacola
fold arm

We will upload and compile the created file "comandos_voz.txt" in the next link in order to generate the recognition vocabulary:

Sphinx knowledge base tool

We will download and rename (commandos_voz.*) the generated files within the folder "config" of the generated package. We will create a file named "comados_voz.launch" within the folder "launch" of the package in order to start :

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