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Jean-Francois Bourdeau
Asked: 2018-08-03 14:00:28 +0800 CST

I would like to install Simon Voice recognition software on Ubunu 18.04

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I can't find an easy way to install Simon voice recognition software on Ubuntu 18.04. What is the easiest way?

If you know an alternative that can be installed on Debian or Ubuntu let me know. Wrist problems and a voice recognition to control my station would be more than welcome.

18.04 voice-recognition simon

3 Answers

  1. Since simon was dropped from the 18.04 repositories, installation is not easy, and requires downloading its source code and compiling it. This is non-trivial.

    Alternatives? CMUsphinx is just a toolkit which simon uses, and freespeech AKA OpenMindSpeech is less. julius, another toolkit simon uses, exists and is in the 18.04 repositories, but is nowhere near as well documented as simon. Installing julius is simple: open a terminal window and type in

    sudo apt-get install julius

    Should you find julius wanting, this article goes into great detail on an alternative through Google Docs.

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  2. It's no longer in the repositories for 18.04 and hence you need to compile it from source. First pull it from the git repo using

    git clone git://anongit.kde.org/simon simonsource

    Install the build dependencies

    sudo apt-get install cmake kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-dbg kdelibs5-dev

    And then build it

    cd simonsource
./build_ubuntu.sh
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  3. git clone git://anongit.kde.org/simon simonsource

    sudo apt-get install cmake kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-dbg kdelibs5-dev

    sudo apt-get install libqwt-dev

    Add in file: simonsource/build/simonlib/simonactions/moc_actionmanager.cpp (last line)

    #include "../../../simonlib/simonactions/actionmanager.h" // behind this line:9
#include <QHash>                                          // add this line

    Save file and compile.

    cd simonsource

    ./build_ubuntu.sh

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