Hi, first post here. I'm looking to set up Simon to replace mouse and keyboard. I will install it on 32bit Ubuntu 13.04. What is the best way to do this please?

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Bob

The 0.4.0 package in 13.04 is fairly broken but there is a 0.4.1 package for Saucy that should probably work on 13.04 as well: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/si ... 1-0ubuntu2

If that doesn't work, you'll have to compile from source.

Best regards,
Peter

bedahr wrote:The 0.4.0 package in 13.04 is fairly broken but there is a 0.4.1 package for Saucy that should probably work on 13.04 as well: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/si ... 1-0ubuntu2

Indeed 0.4.1-Oubuntu2 installed ok on Alpha 2 Saucy 32 bit.

I looked through some manual stuff and it appears I need to load HTK to enable modifying base models to suit an individuals voice. Is this still the current position?

Bob

bwallum wrote:

bedahr wrote:The 0.4.0 package in 13.04 is fairly broken but there is a 0.4.1 package for Saucy that should probably work on 13.04 as well: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/si ... 1-0ubuntu2

Indeed 0.4.1-Oubuntu2 installed ok on Alpha 2 Saucy 32 bit.

Great!

bwallum wrote:

bedahr wrote:I looked through some manual stuff and it appears I need to load HTK to enable modifying base models to suit an individuals voice. Is this still the current position?

No, although it depends on the base model. SPHINX base models can (only) be modified with SphinxTrain, HTK base models only with the HTK (note the SPHINX and JHTK tags in the publicly available speech models to tell you which is which).

Btw. where did you see this in the manual?

Best regards,
Peter

I think I'm going to need some help getting this going.

In order to support I have loaded Simon on to my AMD64 Ubuntu 13.10 system. I get this error

"Could not initialize scenarios and shadow dictionary"

I installed version 0.4.1-Oubuntu2 using the Ubuntu Software Centre and rebooted. The error appears immediately after the small splash appears.

Maybe their current package is still broken, I haven't looked at it yet (I was told that they fixed the issue, though).

Are you up for installing Simon from source? It's not very hard. You can find some documentation here: http://userbase.kde.org/Simon/Developme ... ment#Linux

Best regards,
Peter

Ok

Firstly, I understand that one needs to install either Sphinx or HTK backend. I have some Sphinx files loaded with the Ubuntu Software Centre install. Should these be enough?

sphinx-voxforge-hmm-en 0.1.1daily20130301-Oubuntu1
sphinx-voxforge-lm-en 0.1.1daily20130301-Oubuntu1
libsphinxbase1 0.8-Oubuntu8
sphinx3-doc 0.8-Oubuntu1

Then where is the latest up to date manual to find out about Simon. I'm in a fog at the moment.

To enable the (recommended) SPHINX backend you need PocketSphinx, SphinxBase and SphinxTrain from the 0.8 release (or later).

I don't use Ubuntu so I don't know about the package names but it looks like you are missing PocketSphinx and SphinxTrain.

Manual: http://docs.kde.org/development/en/extr ... /simon.pdf

Best regards,
Peter