Kade

Introduction

Kade is a virtual secretary and information system build off of The Toolkit for Building Voice Interaction Systems (MMDAgent) and custom buit dialog manager developed by the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

Kade uses the Flite engine for TTS and PocketSphinx for speech recognition along with the OAQA System for question answering.

Building Kade

Currently Kade is only officially supported on Ubuntu 12.04 although it should work well on any recent UNIX distro. It may work on other platorms (especially Windows), but support is not guaranteed. Also, if you have any of the dependencies please feel free to skip those steps.

Dependencies

Packages

apt-get install subversion git autoconf libtool automake bison g++ libftgl-dev libfreetype6-dev libxrandr-dev libasound2-dev python2.7-dev wine libpulse-dev

CMU Sphinx

1. Make a new directory to install cmusphinx, inside that directory checkout the following repo:

    svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/cmusphinx/code/trunk cmusphinx-code
   

2. First go into the sphinxbase directory and install sphinxbase

    cd sphinxbase
    ./autogen.sh
    make
    sudo make install
   

3. Then go into the pocketsphinx directory and install pocketsphinx on top of sphinxbase

    cd pocketsphinx
    ./autogen.sh
    make
    sudo make install
   

Freetype

Freetype2 is not very smart and doesn't make a symlink where it should so one has to be created manualy

sudo ln -s /usr/include/freetype2/freetype /usr/include/freetype

LWP

You need the LWP perl bundle to compile the grammar, so lets install that now

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Bundle::LWP'

Installing Kade

1. First clone the repo:

   git clone https://github.com/minigeek/MMDAgent.git
   

2. Then initialize the submodules

   git submodule init
   git submodule update
   

3. Inside the Library_Phoneix directory run ./configure

4. Update the location of your MMDAgent folder in Plugin_Kade/Kade_Thread.cpp (around line 119, replace home/robocep with the location of your MMDAgent folder).

5. Then try:

   make x11-utf-8
   

6. Assuming all went well we will now build the grammar files (which don't build by default)

   ./Release/AppData/Logios/CompileLanguage.sh
   

7. If everything went well so far then try running MMDAgent (you may still be missing some dependencies, this is still a work in progress).

   ./Release/MMDAgent
   

Pretty much, it's awful.

Contributors

• Alan Black
• Chase Brownell
• Shane Smith

Copywrite

The Kade System is released under the -------- License, for more details see Copywrite.txt.