VADAS
VADAS (Voice Activated Distributed Automation System) is meant to be an extensible system for controlling devices accessible to your computer. Targeting the coming "internet" of things, VADAS applies simplest-first principles to tackling the problems posed by distributed systems and effective home automation.
VADAS stands on the shoulders of the following giants:
Setting up VADAS
To set up VADAS:
- Install CMU Sphinx, which requires:
- Install node-webkit (nwjs)
Common Issuses
Unable to find libudev.so.0 while trying to install nwjs
If this error pops up, usually you can check the Google Chrome shared libraries to find a version that you can use. To link to the version you'd like, you can modify your LD_LIBRARY_PATH
(temporarily or in your shell config file) to include the shared libraries packed with Chrome, often found in /opt/google/chrome
For bash, this looks something like: # Add google chrome's shared libs to load path export CHROME_LIBS="/opt/google/chrome" export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$CHROME_LIBS:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH