Offline

In this section, you will see how to setup the Leon's offline nodes.

With these STT/TTS providers and this hotword node, everything is running on your machine, nothing get out to request a third-party. To setup them all at the same time, simply run the following command:

npm run setup:offline

Warning

• The offline STT and offline TTS only work for the en-US language. More languages will come later.

Coqui (STT)

For the offline STT, Leon uses Coqui STT which is a TensorFlow implementation of Baidu's DeepSpeech architecture.

Everything is already ready, you just need to run a command to download and setup the pre-trained model (~ 1 GB). If you wish to only install the offline STT, run the following command:

npm run setup:offline-stt

Then in your .env file, set LEON_STT=true and LEON_STT_PROVIDER=coqui-stt.

Flite (TTS)

For the offline TTS, Leon uses CMU Flite which is a small, fast runtime open-source text-to-speech synthesis engine developed at CMU (Carnegie Mellon University).

Here also, everything is ready, you just need to run a command to download the binary and configure. If you wish to only install the offline TTS, run the following command:

npm run setup:offline-tts

Then in your .env file, set LEON_TTS=true and LEON_TTS_PROVIDER=flite.

Tip

This voice is... Quite funny :)

Hotword

The hotword node is an independent Node.js process which allows you to listen for the Leon hotword. Once Leon hears his name, he listens for your request.

Setup

Tip

Use nvm to easily switch between your Node.js versions.

If you wish to only install the offline hotword, then run the following command:

npm run setup:offline-hotword

Usage

Ensure the Leon's server is running, then from the project root, execute the following command:

npm run wake

# Now say "Leon"

Languages

The hotword node supports the following languages:

• en-US
• fr-FR

To change the language, simply switch the project language via the LEON_LANG variable environment and re-run the main server and the hotword process.