Newbie build problem

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1

Not sure if this should be here or Help.

I am trying to build rhasspy on Debian 11. There have been several iterations failing at errors that were resolved by installing additional Debian packages. But currently the “make install” fails to build snowboy because <Python.h> isn’t found by g++.

Any suggestions?

Left to myself I’ll try to isolate this bit of the process and then try to debug it.

My build sequence is:

git clone https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy.git
cd rhasspy
python3 -m venv .venv
make
make install

The failure is here:

"/home/greg/Hobbies.local/Rhasspy/rhasspy-1/rhasspy/.venv/bin/python" -m pip install  "/home/greg/Hobbies.local/Rhasspy/rhasspy-1/rhasspy/download/shared/snowboy-1.3.0.tar.gz"
Processing ./download/shared/snowboy-1.3.0.tar.gz
Processing /home/greg/.cache/pip/wheels/66/6c/95/76afa159d5be5215b6f6499625a0ddf1134e60f85beeba6e7a/PyAudio-0.2.12-cp39-cp39-linux_x86_64.whl
Building wheels for collected packages: snowboy
  Building wheel for snowboy (setup.py) ... error
  ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
   command: /home/greg/Hobbies.local/Rhasspy/rhasspy-1/rhasspy/.venv/bin/python -u -c 'import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = '"'"'/tmp/pip-req-build-ei982x_3/setup.py'"'"'; __file__='"'"'/tmp/pip-req-build-ei982x_3/setup.py'"'"';f=getattr(tokenize, '"'"'open'"'"', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('"'"'\r\n'"'"', '"'"'\n'"'"');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, '"'"'exec'"'"'))' bdist_wheel -d /tmp/pip-wheel-uh8jbw98
       cwd: /tmp/pip-req-build-ei982x_3/
  Complete output (18 lines):
  running bdist_wheel
  running build
  Compiling snowboy...
  make[1]: Entering directory '/tmp/pip-req-build-ei982x_3/swig/Python3'
  make[1]: python3-config: No such file or directory
  make[1]: python3-config: No such file or directory
  swig -I../../ -c++ -python -o snowboy-detect-swig.cc snowboy-detect-swig.i
  g++  -I../../ -O3 -fPIC -D_GLIBCXX_USE_CXX11_ABI=0 -std=c++0x -c snowboy-detect-swig.cc
  snowboy-detect-swig.cc:181:11: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
    181 | # include <Python.h>
        |           ^~~~~~~~~~
  compilation terminated.
  make[1]: *** [Makefile:70: snowboy-detect-swig.o] Error 1

I previously got the same error earlier when building pocketsphinx, but that one was fixed by installing libpython3.9-dev.

2

One solution to avoid this particular error is to define an environment variable CPATH equal to the directory containing Python.h. Not yet sure if this will result in a working installation though.

3

Setting CPATH seemed to fix my error above.

But I encountered additional issues.

I had to disable vosk and larynx. No packages for them could be found. I had to actually edit configure to accomplish this; the --disable-XX arguments did not work.

I did need to install gfortran and additional libraries in order to build scipy, but eventually that worked.

I got a bunch of error messages about incompatibilities:

rhasspy-asr-deepspeech 0.4.1 requires rhasspy-nlu~=0.3.0, but you'll have rhasspy-nlu 0.4.0 which is incompatible.
rhasspy-asr-kaldi 0.6.1 requires rhasspy-nlu~=0.3.0, but you'll have rhasspy-nlu 0.4.0 which is incompatible.
rhasspy-asr-kaldi-hermes 0.7.1 requires rhasspy-asr-kaldi~=0.7.0, but you'll have rhasspy-asr-kaldi 0.6.1 which is incompatible.
rhasspy-asr-pocketsphinx 0.3.1 requires rhasspy-nlu~=0.3.0, but you'll have rhasspy-nlu 0.4.0 which is incompatible.
rhasspy-fuzzywuzzy 0.4.0 requires rhasspy-nlu~=0.3.0, but you'll have rhasspy-nlu 0.4.0 which is incompatible.
rhasspy-nlu-hermes 0.5.1 requires rhasspy-nlu~=0.3.0, but you'll have rhasspy-nlu 0.4.0 which is incompatible.

The make install currently stops on an error that the directory rhasspy/rhasspy-server-hermes/web does not exist.

4

Trying on Pop!_OS 22.04 (Ubuntu based):
git clone https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy.git
cd rhasspy
./configure
python3 -m venv .venv
make

#the above appears to have worked/completed without errors

make install

ERROR: No matching distribution found for rhasspy-asr-vosk-hermes (from rhasspy==2.5.11)

ERROR: No matching distribution found for deepspeech==0.9.3 (from rhasspy-asr-deepspeech->rhasspy==2.5.11)

in setup.py changed:
enable_vosk = is_yes(“no”)
enable_deepspeech = is_yes(“no”)

#ok, passed these errors
make install
#…
#got to…
collecting scipy==1.5.1
Downloading scipy-1.5.1.tar.gz (25.6 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 25.6 MB 52 kB/s
Installing build dependencies …

#then spit out tons of compile warnings and errors. Full log output is here:
https://termbin.com/h24ju

5

what additional libraries did you need to install for scipy?

6

Have a look at:
Installation Virtual Environment
It starts with a list of Debian packages which are build dependencies.
libgfortran4 isn’t in Debian 11, so I installed libgfortran5. I don’t remember if there were additional packages that I needed.

My most recent build attempt used the following steps:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/rhasspy/rhasspy
cd rhasspy
# edit configure: change line 3938 to:  is_vosk_enabled=no
./configure RHASSPY_LANGUAGE=en --disable-vosk --disable-deepspeech --disable-larynx --disable-wavenet --enable-in-place
make
#  edit Makefile: duplicate line 150 and change "cython" to "typed-ast==1.4.3"
make install

That worked with only 3 warnings; they were generated when building rhasspywake_raven

  1. Using deprecated NumPy API
  2. conversion to ‘long unsigned int’ from ‘Py_ssize_t’
  3. conversion to ‘Py_ssize_t’ {aka ‘long int’} from ‘size_t’

I still can’t get the resulting rhasspy.sh to run though.

Also, my preference is to NOT use --enable-in-place, but leaving out that option in the ./configure command generates other errors.

7

thanks will give it a try

8

doing that for me in a LinuxMint 21.1 Virtualbox VM
“make install” failed here…

Collecting lxml==4.6.3
Downloading lxml-4.6.3.tar.gz (3.2 MB)
|████████████████████████████████| 3.2 MB 8.3 MB/s
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1:
command: /home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv/bin/python -c ‘import sys, setuptools, tokenize; sys.argv[0] = ‘"’"’/tmp/pip-install-tdl6imqy/lxml/setup.py’“'”‘; file=’“'”‘/tmp/pip-install-tdl6imqy/lxml/setup.py’“'”‘;f=getattr(tokenize, ‘"’“‘open’”’“‘, open)(file);code=f.read().replace(’”‘"’\r\n’“'”‘, ‘"’"’\n’“'”‘);f.close();exec(compile(code, file, ‘"’“‘exec’”’"‘))’ egg_info --egg-base /tmp/pip-pip-egg-info-01zgr71p
cwd: /tmp/pip-install-tdl6imqy/lxml/
Complete output (3 lines):
Building lxml version 4.6.3.
Building without Cython.
Error: Please make sure the libxml2 and libxslt development packages are installed.
----------------------------------------
ERROR: Command errored out with exit status 1: python setup.py egg_info Check the logs for full command output.
WARNING: You are using pip version 20.2.4; however, version 22.3.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the ‘/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv/bin/python -m pip install --upgrade pip’ command.
make: *** [Makefile:176: install-rhasspy] Error 1

9

Installed these, now getting past that part:

sudo apt-get install gfortran libgfortran5 python3-lxml libxml2-dev libxslt-dev libffi-dev
make install

still trying to complete “make install”

10

Makefile should still have one line to install cython and another to install typed-ast==1.4.3

Sorry, I guess I wasn’t clear. I copied the cython line and on the new line I changed “cython” to “typed-ast==1.4.3”

12

@GregD well maybe made some progress here at least fixing that above error, and at least got something to run. Again, this was a build/run in a LinuxMint 21.1 VM on VirtualBox.

File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-profile/rhasspyprofile/profile.py”, line 235, in recursive_update
if isinstance(v, collections.Mapping) and (k in base_dict):
AttributeError: module ‘collections’ has no attribute ‘Mapping’

$ xed rhasspy-profile/rhasspyprofile/profile.py &

#profile.py line 235 change

- if isinstance(v, collections.Mapping) and (k in base_dict):
+ if isinstance(v, collections.abc.Mapping) and (k in base_dict):

$ ./rhasspy.sh --profile en

Starting up…
Using virtual environment at /home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Namespace(profile=‘en’, system_profiles=None, user_profiles=PosixPath(‘/home/sass/.config/rhasspy/profiles’), supervisord_conf=‘supervisord.conf’, docker_compose=‘’, local_mqtt_port=12183, mosquitto_path=‘mosquitto’, debug=True)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Loading profile en (user=/home/sass/.config/rhasspy/profiles, system=None)
DEBUG:rhasspyprofile.profile:Loading /home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-profile/rhasspyprofile/profiles/en/profile.json
DEBUG:rhasspyprofile.profile:Loading /home/sass/.config/rhasspy/profiles/en/profile.json
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Generating supervisord conf
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Microphone disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Speakers disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Wake word disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Speech to text disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Intent recognition disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Intent handling disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Text to speech disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Dialogue disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Wrote /home/sass/.config/rhasspy/profiles/en/supervisord.conf
Starting services…
Using virtual environment at /home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv
Using virtual environment at /home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv
2022-12-30 16:57:41,002 INFO supervisord started with pid 7553
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py”, line 187, in _run_module_as_main
mod_name, mod_spec, code = _get_module_details(mod_name, _Error)
File “/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py”, line 146, in _get_module_details
return _get_module_details(pkg_main_name, error)
File “/usr/lib/python3.10/runpy.py”, line 110, in _get_module_details
import(pkg_name)
File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-server-hermes/rhasspyserver_hermes/init.py”, line 17, in
import rhasspynlu
File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-nlu/rhasspynlu/init.py”, line 2, in
from .arpa_lm import arpa_to_fst, fst_to_arpa, graph_to_arpa, graph_to_arpa_small
File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-nlu/rhasspynlu/arpa_lm.py”, line 10, in
import networkx as nx
File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/networkx/init.py”, line 115, in
import networkx.readwrite
File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/networkx/readwrite/init.py”, line 15, in
from networkx.readwrite.graphml import *
File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/networkx/readwrite/graphml.py”, line 314, in
class GraphML(object):
File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/networkx/readwrite/graphml.py”, line 346, in GraphML
(np.int, “int”), (np.int8, “int”),
File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/numpy/init.py”, line 284, in getattr
raise AttributeError("module {!r} has no attribute "
AttributeError: module ‘numpy’ has no attribute ‘int’. Did you mean: ‘inf’?
2022-12-30 16:57:42,021 INFO spawned: ‘mqtt’ with pid 7565
1672430262: mosquitto version 2.0.11 starting
1672430262: Using default config.
1672430262: Starting in local only mode. Connections will only be possible from clients running on this machine.
1672430262: Create a configuration file which defines a listener to allow remote access.
1672430262: For more details see Authentication methods | Eclipse Mosquitto
1672430262: Opening ipv4 listen socket on port 12183.
1672430262: Opening ipv6 listen socket on port 12183.
1672430262: mosquitto version 2.0.11 running
2022-12-30 16:57:43,065 INFO success: mqtt entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)

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OK I managed to get it running but don’t know yet if it works, but at least I got the web admin page to load. A lot of things were broken in the build. Here’s various things I did.

#//// try this first, then below two edits if it doesn’t work.
$ ./.venv/bin/pip install -U networkx
Collecting networkx
Using cached networkx-2.8.8-py3-none-any.whl (2.0 MB)

#remove the inclusion of np.float, np.int in these files.
#better to determine the correct networkx package version to use TBD:

xed ./.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/networkx/readwrite/graphml.py &
xed ./.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/networkx/readwrite/gexf.py &

$ ./.venv/bin/pip uninstall markupsafe
$ ./.venv/bin/pip install markupsafe==2.0.1

$ ./.venv/bin/pip install -U aiohttp
$ ./.venv/bin/pip install -U discord
$ ./.venv/bin/pip install -U hypercorn

$ ./rhasspy.sh --profile en

Starting up…
Using virtual environment at /home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Namespace(profile=‘en’, system_profiles=None, user_profiles=PosixPath(‘/home/sass/.config/rhasspy/profiles’), supervisord_conf=‘supervisord.conf’, docker_compose=‘’, local_mqtt_port=12183, mosquitto_path=‘mosquitto’, debug=True)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Loading profile en (user=/home/sass/.config/rhasspy/profiles, system=None)
DEBUG:rhasspyprofile.profile:Loading /home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-profile/rhasspyprofile/profiles/en/profile.json
DEBUG:rhasspyprofile.profile:Loading /home/sass/.config/rhasspy/profiles/en/profile.json
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Generating supervisord conf
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Microphone disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Speakers disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Wake word disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Speech to text disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Intent recognition disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Intent handling disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Text to speech disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Dialogue disabled (system=dummy)
DEBUG:rhasspysupervisor:Wrote /home/sass/.config/rhasspy/profiles/en/supervisord.conf
Starting services…
Using virtual environment at /home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv
Using virtual environment at /home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv
2022-12-31 17:43:22,969 INFO supervisord started with pid 15336
/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-server-hermes/rhasspyserver_hermes/main.py:89: DeprecationWarning: There is no current event loop
_LOOP = asyncio.get_event_loop()
Unable to detect CPU capabilities
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:23,443] rhasspyserver_hermes: Namespace(profile=‘en’, host=‘0.0.0.0’, port=12101, url_root=‘’, mqtt_host=None, mqtt_port=None, mqtt_username=None, mqtt_password=None, local_mqtt_port=12183, system_profiles=None, user_profiles=‘/home/sass/.config/rhasspy/profiles’, set=[], certfile=None, keyfile=None, log_level=‘DEBUG’, log_format=‘[%(levelname)s:%(asctime)s] %(name)s: %(message)s’, web_dir=‘/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-server-hermes/web’)
/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-server-hermes/rhasspyserver_hermes/main.py:204: DeprecationWarning: ssl.SSLContext() without protocol argument is deprecated.
ssl_context = ssl.SSLContext()
/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-server-hermes/rhasspyserver_hermes/main.py:204: DeprecationWarning: ssl.PROTOCOL_TLS is deprecated
ssl_context = ssl.SSLContext()
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:23,501] rhasspyprofile.profile: Loading /home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-profile/rhasspyprofile/profiles/en/profile.json
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:23,502] rhasspyprofile.profile: Loading /home/sass/.config/rhasspy/profiles/en/profile.json
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:23,502] rhasspyprofile.profile: Loading default profile settings from /home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-profile/rhasspyprofile/profiles/defaults.json
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:23,503] rhasspyserver_hermes: Starting core
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:23,503] rhasspyserver_hermes: Connecting to localhost:12183 (retries: 0/10)
[ERROR:2022-12-31 17:43:23,505] rhasspyserver_hermes: mqtt connect
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/rhasspy-server-hermes/rhasspyserver_hermes/init.py”, line 290, in start
self.client.connect(self.host, self.port)
File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paho/mqtt/client.py”, line 937, in connect
return self.reconnect()
File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paho/mqtt/client.py”, line 1071, in reconnect
sock = self._create_socket_connection()
File “/home/sass/Documents/saytoshi/rhasspy/.venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/paho/mqtt/client.py”, line 3522, in _create_socket_connection
return socket.create_connection(addr, source_address=source, timeout=self._keepalive)
File “/usr/lib/python3.10/socket.py”, line 845, in create_connection
raise err
File “/usr/lib/python3.10/socket.py”, line 833, in create_connection
sock.connect(sa)
ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused
2022-12-31 17:43:23,978 INFO spawned: ‘mqtt’ with pid 15345
1672519404: mosquitto version 2.0.11 starting
1672519404: Using default config.
1672519404: Starting in local only mode. Connections will only be possible from clients running on this machine.
1672519404: Create a configuration file which defines a listener to allow remote access.
1672519404: For more details see Authentication methods | Eclipse Mosquitto
1672519404: Opening ipv4 listen socket on port 12183.
1672519404: Opening ipv6 listen socket on port 12183.
1672519404: mosquitto version 2.0.11 running
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,509] rhasspyserver_hermes: Connecting to localhost:12183 (retries: 1/10)
1672519404: New connection from 127.0.0.1:39953 on port 12183.
1672519404: New client connected from 127.0.0.1:39953 as auto-A504A6D1-E466-C411-6915-9DCEAED0729C (p2, c1, k60).
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,521] rhasspyserver_hermes: Connected to MQTT broker
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,522] rhasspyserver_hermes: Subscribed to hermes/hotword/+/detected
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,522] rhasspyserver_hermes: Subscribed to hermes/asr/textCaptured
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,523] rhasspyserver_hermes: Subscribed to hermes/intent/#
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,524] rhasspyserver_hermes: Subscribed to hermes/nlu/intentNotRecognized
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,524] rhasspyserver_hermes: Subscribed to rhasspy/asr/default/+/audioCaptured
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,524] rhasspyserver_hermes: Subscribed to hermes/audioServer/default/audioSummary
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,525] rhasspyserver_hermes: Subscribed to hermes/intent/#
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,526] rhasspyserver_hermes: Subscribed to hermes/nlu/intentNotRecognized
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,526] rhasspyserver_hermes: Subscribed to hermes/audioServer/default/audioSummary
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,526] rhasspyserver_hermes: Subscribed to hermes/asr/textCaptured
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,527] rhasspyserver_hermes: Subscribed to hermes/hotword/+/detected
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,528] rhasspyserver_hermes: Subscribed to rhasspy/asr/default/+/audioCaptured
[INFO:2022-12-31 17:43:24,528] rhasspyserver_hermes: Started
[DEBUG:2022-12-31 17:43:24,529] rhasspyserver_hermes: Starting web server at http://0.0.0.0:12101
[2022-12-31 17:43:24 -0300] [15335] [INFO] Running on http://0.0.0.0:12101 (CTRL + C to quit)
[INFO:2022-12-31 17:43:24,538] hypercorn.error: Running on http://0.0.0.0:12101 (CTRL + C to quit)
2022-12-31 17:43:25,530 INFO success: mqtt entered RUNNING state, process has stayed up for > than 1 seconds (startsecs)

TTS is working now but not STT/ASR

logs: https://termbin.com/kt39t

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I ran into the same issues with the networkx dependency interacting with numpy as well as the jinja2 dependency interacting with some transitive dependencies. The solution I found was to add an explicit entry for numpy==1.20.1 in requirements.txt files that depended on networkx instead of relying on pip pulling in some newer version. Ideally we could update these dependencies to newer versions.

The same solution works for jinja2 by fixing the transitive dependency markupsafe. I am willing to create the PR in the 10 or so projects that require these changes, but I wasn’t sure they would be merged. I created one PR here:

but the project hasn’t had any commits since June 2021. Is this project still actively maintained?

15

I went ahead and created the PRs for all the repositories that address the build issues discussed here:

  1. /rhasspy/rhasspy-snips-nlu-hermes/pull/2
  2. /rhasspy/rhasspy-snips-nlu/pull/2
  3. /rhasspy/rhasspy-server-hermes/pull/33
  4. /rhasspy/rhasspy-nlu-hermes/pull/4
  5. /rhasspy/rhasspy-nlu/pull/18
  6. /rhasspy/rhasspy-fuzzywuzzy-hermes/pull/2
  7. /rhasspy/rhasspy-fuzzywuzzy/pull/5
  8. /rhasspy/rhasspy-asr-vosk-hermes/pull/1
  9. /rhasspy/rhasspy-asr-pocketsphinx-hermes/pull/3
  10. /rhasspy/rhasspy-asr-pocketsphinx/pull/1
  11. /rhasspy/rhasspy-asr-kaldi-hermes/pull/1
  12. /rhasspy/rhasspy-asr-kaldi/pull/3
  13. /rhasspy/rhasspy/pull/315
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16

I think it’s is but infrequently as @synesthesiam is busy working with Nabu Casa now and their Home-Assistant priorities.

17

As @fluidvoice mentioned, it has been infrequent since I changed jobs in 2021 (and then again in 2022).

When I have time, I’ve spent it working towards Rhasspy version 3. I am purposely keeping services/tools external to the core in version 3, using isolated virtual environments (or just calling pre-compiled programs directly).

18

Thanks for the reply. I didn’t want to spend effort if it wasn’t the right path forward. Should I be working with version 3? Is that available somewhere? Sorry if this is documented somewhere. Just trying to get my local setup and encountering various issues that I can help with.

19

It’s not available just yet, but I’m getting closer every day :slight_smile:

I’d be curious to hear about your use case for Rhasspy. Are you using it as a self-contained voice assistant on a single machine, as a server with satellites, or just as an API backend to open source voice services?

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Hi @synesthesiam
I want to create skills for non home automation uses in the fastest way possible.
My ideal config would be one simple pre-configured STT/TTS server (English by default) that I can spin up in a LXD/lxc container or on a local or hosted Pi4 and a USB mic or an Android phone app for audio over MQTT. Meaning, no setup/config GUI but instead just a config file to be edited, with the goal to reduce time to download or build. Eg. spin up an LXC container and run a script to download a pre-configured Rhasspy for English or some other lang set to use ALSA/Pulseaudio audio in/out.

The objective is get to a working server and audio in/out state as quick as possible for skills development.

Maybe a second pre-configured setup (or simple config file edit) for a cloud hosted VM or RPi4 which uses a MQTT enabled client app on a mobile phone.

I think you mentioned v3 will be more modular so maybe this will help the above and also for people to be able to build and contribute to the less “monolithic” Rhasspy

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exactly. I wasted enough time trying to figure out how to get v2.5 to build.
And I don’t even care about 80% of it. The GUI, the various different STT/TTS engines and spoken languages. I just want something easily buildable that has good ASR/TTS performance in English/etc. and I can use to create skills and hack on to experiment with integrations and app ideas.