Jasper with Raspian Buster on a Raspberry Pi Model 4

[Steve Kuekes]

Here is a tutorial on installing Jasper on a Raspberry using Raspian Buster.  I have done this install twice with no problems if you follow all the directions and apply the couple of patches that I have included.

I tested this on a Raspberry Pi Model 4 and a Model 3 B+.  Both work fine.

Let me know if you have any comments.  I'll try to make the formatting on the tutorial better.

The link to the tutorial is http://www.kuekes.com/jasperbuster.html

I am working on an ISO image that will be quicker to install. 

Steve

[SAI ARAVIND VOBBILISETTY]

hello 

I tried doing this. Jasper is greeting me but not responding to my commands. i am getting the following error.

l notifier will not be used

CRITICAL:client.stt:Request failed with response: u'{\n  "code": "no-auth",\n  "error": "Bad auth, check token/params"\n}'

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/home/pi/jasper/client/stt.py", line 594, in transcribe

    r.raise_for_status()

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/requests/models.py", line 829, in raise_for_status

    raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)

HTTPError: 400 Client Error: Bad Request

Can you please help me

[Steve Kuekes]

Have you made the changes to your ~/.jasper/profile.yml.  can you post it here

It seems that your jasper is trying to use wit.ai speech to text engine.  The changes I made use the sphinx text to speech package.

your profile.yml should contain

stt_engine: sphinx

[Albertus de Wet]

I got this to compile without errors by following the instructions of: http://www.kuekes.com/jasperbuster.html  (Thank you). But when I run ./jasper.py - I get these messages:

*******************************************************

*             JASPER - THE TALKING COMPUTER           *

* (c) 2015 Shubhro Saha, Charlie Marsh & Jan Holthuis *

*******************************************************

WARNING:root:tts_engine not specified in profile, defaulting to 'espeak-tts'

ERROR:root:Error occured!

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "../jasper.py", line 146, in <module>

    app = Jasper()

  File "../jasper.py", line 105, in __init__

    tts_engine_class = tts.get_engine_by_slug(tts_engine_slug)

  File "../client/tts.py", line 665, in get_engine_by_slug

    "missing dependencies, etc.)") % slug)

ValueError: TTS engine 'espeak-tts' is not available (due to missing dependencies, etc.)

my ~/.jasper/profile.yml file contents:

carrier: vtext.com

first_name: xxxxx

gmail_address: xx...@gmail.com

gmail_password: xxxx

last_name: xxxxx

phone_number: '1111111111'

prefers_email: false

stt_engine: sphinx

timezone: America/New_York

pocketsphinx:

         hmm_dir: '/usr/share/pocketsphinx/model/en-us/en-us'

         fst_model: '~/phonetisaurus/g014b2b.fst'

tts_engine: festival-tts

which is exacly the same as in the instructions (only with my values specified) , but the last four lines are identical.

can anyone help, please?

Thanks

[ala...@aqorn.com]

I moved all relevant artifacts from steps, patches and everything else needed to deploy jasper on a RPI to GitHub/SourceForge with an updated tutorial, all required files as well as a pre-installed Jasper install on an ISO. Try it out and let me know if it works for you.

https://github.com/aplawson/jasperbuster

https://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperclient/files

//adam

[ala...@aqorn.com]

This also includes the patch(es) that is/are reportedly missing from the Kuekes website.

//adam