personalizedrefrigerator/speech-dispatcher-text-output

speech-dispatcher-text-output

This project sets up an output module for speech-dispatcher that logs text to a terminal (rather than speaking it aloud).

Setup

Option 1: Using setup.sh

1. Run setup.sh.
   • setup.sh is responsible for adding stdout-generic as a speech dispatcher module.
2. (Optional) In ~/.config/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, change DefaultModule to stdout-generic.
3. Run bash log-speech.sh.
   • This creates a FIFO at /tmp/speech-stdout, then repeatedly logs output from that FIFO.
   • Pressing ctrl-c removes the FIFO and ends the output loop.

Option 2: Manual setup

1. Run spd-conf -uc to initialize speech-dispatcher configuration files.
   • On some distributions, spd-conf -uc fails to run (e.g. error: can't find XDG_CONFIG_HOME). It may be sufficient to manually create a ~/.config/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf file that imports /etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf. For example,

     # In ~/.config/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf"
     Include "/etc/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf"
     

2. Copy stdout-generic.conf to ~/.config/speech-dispatcher/modules/
3. Add stdout-generic as an output module. At the end of ~/.config/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, add,

   #         Name             Type         Configuration file
   AddModule "stdout-generic" "sd_generic" "stdout-generic.conf"
   

4. (Optional) In ~/.config/speech-dispatcher/speechd.conf, change DefaultModule to stdout-generic.

After setup, run log-speech.sh to:

1. Create a fifo /tmp/speech-stdout (with mkfifo).
   • stdout-generic.conf configures speech-dispatcher to push output to /tmp/speech-stdout.
2. Log output from /tmp/speech-stdout (by repeatedly calling cat /tmp/speech-stdout/).