A program to control LEDs using voice commands with a Raspberry PI. The purpose of this project is to control a RGB led strip via a microphone. This project is optimized and built for the Raspberry PI but can be modified to fit various applications.
The project is written with Python 3.6. Pyaudio doesn't support Python 3.7 at the time of developing this project.
Run this command to install PyAudio on Debian/Ubuntu systems:
sudo apt-get install python3-pyaudio
You need pip in order to install dependencies.
The required packages are listed in the req.txt file.
Run this command in order to install necessary packages:
pip install -r requirements.txt
The project depends on PyAudio which might need to be installed using the package manager on Debian/Ubuntu systems.
Clone the repo on your Raspberry PI and run client.py. Note down the IP address/hostname of your PI since you'll need it to connect to the PI from the server.
On the server, run main.py, put in the address of your PI and click "Set Client".
Play around with the settings to find the optimal balance.
You have to plug in the RGB connectors of your LEDs to the respective pins of your Raspberry PI.
- Red -> GPIO 16
- Green -> GPIO 20
- Blue -> GPIO 21
If you're running a LED which requires more than 5V to work, then you need an external power supply.
Refer to this page for the Raspberry PI pinout.
Run speech.py to start the program. You have to have a microphone attach to your device. If you have more than one recording devices, you can set the device_index found in Audio.py file.
The program will automatically detect speech and use Google's services to convert audio to text.
Try running this if you get an error:
sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev
Project depends the SpeechRecognition library which uses Google's services to turn sound into text.