api.ai STT intergration

[Zacharias Kornilakis]

Hello all,

I have tested jasper on the past but it was harder to install and get a decent STT/TTS respond, so I dropped. This weekend I tried again to install on a banana pi and it worked successfully. Right now I'm using  ivona-tts for TTS, which is a quite good speech synthesis. I still facing issues with STT. Pocketsphinx is fast but is limited on workds, witai has all extras that can be used for automation but it is slow and most of the times did not get any "jasper" even I trained it.

So, googling most of the weekend, I found api.ai (https://api.ai/ ) which is free of charge without any API limitations. It works as wit.ai but is real fast and with good change to understand what you saying. I tested python examples ( https://github.com/api-ai/api-ai-python ) and I was very excited because even if I'm 10 feet away from mic, it gets the same results.

Another powerfull feature comparing with wit.ai: it has already sentences (how is Bill Gates?, weather, etc) which no need to build from scratch.

Android has intergration with api.ai using assistance.ai (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.speaktoit.assistant) which can interface with our application.

There is also a device, on indiegogo that is promising that will hit amazon echo and it is using api.ai (https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ivee-talking-to-your-home-is-no-longer-sci-fi/x/13302534#/) .

Now the problem: As far I'm not a programmer, I do not know how to inject code on stt.py to get it part of jasper. So if someone from community like to give a hand and implement api.ai to jasper, it would be great to add another STT engine. I hope someone who knows some coding to read, test and include api.ai to jasper.

Best Regards,

Zac

[G10DRAS]

Btw which Mic you are using ?

[Zacharias Kornilakis]

I have a logitech 9000 pro web cam which i use as mic. 

[G10DRAS]

Thanks

[Vijay Rai]

hey did you get the code for api,ai stt integration? someone please help me getting the code to integrate api.ai stt engine because witai is too slow and inaccurate as well.