Control your Kirkwood device with your voice

# cat /proc/asound/cards 0 [AUDIO ]: USB-Audio - USB AUDIO USB AUDIO at usb-orion-ehci.0-1.3.2, full speed # cat /proc/asound/devices 1: : sequencer 2: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback 3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture 4: [ 0] : control 33: : timer

#!/bin/bash arecord -D plughw:0,0 -f cd -t wav -d 3 -r 16000 | flac - -f --best --sample-rate 16000 -o out.flac; wget -O - -o /dev/null --post-file out.flac --header="Content-Type: audio/x-flac; rate=16000" http://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize?lang=en | sed -e 's/[{}]/''/g'| awk -v k="text" '{n=split($0,a,","); for (i=1; i<=n; i++) print a; exit }' | awk -F: 'NR==3 { print $3; exit }'

ax206geek Wrote:
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> A cheap USB audio adapter from dealextreme/ebay:
> [code]
> # cat /proc/asound/cards
>  0 [AUDIO          ]: USB-Audio - USB  AUDIO
>                       USB  AUDIO at
> usb-orion-ehci.0-1.3.2, full speed
> # cat /proc/asound/devices 
>   1:        : sequencer
>   2: [ 0- 0]: digital audio playback
>   3: [ 0- 0]: digital audio capture
>   4: [ 0]   : control
>  33:        : timer
> [/code]
> 
> The speech to text script
> [code]
> #!/bin/bash
> arecord -D plughw:0,0 -f cd -t wav -d 3 -r 16000 |
> flac - -f --best --sample-rate 16000 -o out.flac;
> wget -O - -o /dev/null --post-file out.flac
> --header="Content-Type: audio/x-flac; rate=16000"
> http://www.google.com/speech-api/v1/recognize?lang=en
> | sed -e 's/[{}]/''/g'| awk -v k="text"
> '{n=split($0,a,","); for (i=1; i<=n; i++) print
> a[i]; exit }' | awk -F: 'NR==3 { print $3; exit
> }'
> [/code]
> 
> Finally to execute the command
> [code]
> eval `speech2text.sh`
> [/code]
> 
> Test with simple commands like hostname, date