README.md

Kõnele

Kõnele is an Android app that offers speech-to-text services to other apps. It contains the following main components:

• RecognizerIntent activity
• Voice keyboard that implements the input method editor (IME) API
• SpeechRecognizer implementation that uses https://github.com/alumae/kaldi-gstreamer-server
• SpeechRecognizer implementation that uses https://github.com/alumae/ruby-pocketsphinx-server

The main goals of this project is to offer support for Estonian speech recognition on the Android platform, as well as grammar-based speech recognition for voice command applications.

For more information see http://kaljurand.github.io/K6nele/.

Compilation

Point to the SDK directory by setting the environment variable ANDROID_HOME, e.g.

ANDROID_HOME=${HOME}/myapps/android-sdk/

Then run

gradle makeIcons
gradle build
gradle lint
gradle assembleRelease

For the listing of more Gradle tasks, run:

gradle tasks

If you have access to the release keystore then

• point to its location by setting the environment variable KEYSTORE

• set KEY_ALIAS to the key alias

• create the file gradle.properties containing the lines:

  storePassword=<password1>
  keyPassword=<password2>
  

Tags

Version tags are set by e.g.

git tag -a v1.1.02 -m 'version 1.1.02'

The last number should be even.

Contributions

The client for https://github.com/alumae/kaldi-gstreamer-server was originally based on https://github.com/truongdq54/kaldi-gstreamer-android-client.