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Grove Speech Recognizer Kit for Arduino

The Grove Speech Recognizer Kit for Arduino is designed for prototype of Smart Home which includes some basic home elements such as Speech Recognizer, Infrared Emitter. You can learn the functions and applications of Speech Recognizer quickly via this kit, the guideline shows some common demos, let's say you can play music via your speak command 'Play music', or turn on the light according to the corresponding command.

Part List


  1. Grove - Speech Recognizer SKU:101020232

  2. Grove - MP3 v2.0

  3. Grove – RTC

  4. Base Shield

  5. Grove - Infrared Receiver

  6. Grove - Infrared Emitter

Application


How to turn on the TV

Sometimes, we want to control something by our voice, such as TV, air condition. Those devices are controlled by Infrared Remote controller, so we need to know what the code of each button of infrared remote controller first, and then put the code under our program. Finally your voice could trigger those button codes and you can control those devices like infrared remote controller.

Before create this demo you should prepare some necessary components:

  • Grove - Infrared Receiver

  • Grove - Infrared Emitter

  • Grove - Speech Recognizer

  • Base Shield

  • Arduino UNO

  • Infrared Remote controller

Get code of a infrared remote controller via Grove - Infrared Receiver

Download necessary libraries from github : IRSendRev ,pay attention to the path of your libraries: .../arduino/libraries

  • Now open the example file of "recv" : File --> Sketchbook --> libraries --> IRSendRev --> recv.

  • Upload the program to your Arduino UNO.

  • Plug Base Shield onto the Arduino UNO,and plug the Grove - Receiver onto the D2 port of Base Shield.

const int pinRecv = 2;

Also you can change another port while modifying the definement of pin.

  • Open the monitor of Arduino UNO.

Press a button of any Infrared Remote Controller, you'll get the detailed information code of the button, see following:

Write down the detailed information of the button you want to press. Following are the information of a button:

+------------------------------------------------------+
LEN = 9
START_H: 179 START_L: 88
DATA_H: 11 DATA_L: 33

DATA_LEN = 4
DATA: 0x80 0x7E 0x10 0xEF
DATA: 128 126 16 239
+------------------------------------------------------+

Modify the IRSend program

Now we can use the previous information code of a button.

  • Open the example file of "send" : File --> Sketchbook --> libraries --> IRSendRev --> send.

  • Upload the program to your Arduino UNO.

  • Plug Base Shield onto the Arduino UNO,and plug the Grove - Receiver onto the D3 port of Base Shield.

First we need modify the default information of the button:

unsigned char dtaSend[20];

void dtaInit()
{
............
}

Modify those information according to the previous one you wrote:

unsigned char dtaSend[20];

void dtaInit()
{
dtaSend[BIT_LEN] = 9; // all data that needs to be sent
dtaSend[BIT_START_H] = 179; // the logic high duration of a button
dtaSend[BIT_START_L] = 88; // the logic low duration of a button
dtaSend[BIT_DATA_H] = 11; // the logic "long" duration in the communication
dtaSend[BIT_DATA_L] = 33; // the logic "short" duration in the communication

dtaSend[BIT_DATA_LEN] = 4; // Number of data which will sent. If the number is other, you should increase or reduce dtaSend[BIT_DATA+x].

dtaSend[BIT_DATA+0] = 128; // data that will sent
dtaSend[BIT_DATA+1] = 126;
dtaSend[BIT_DATA+2] = 16;
dtaSend[BIT_DATA+3] = 239;
//dtaSend[BIT_DATA+4] = 192;
//dtaSend[BIT_DATA+5] = 63;
}

You can observe that:

DATA_LEN = 4

So you can note or delete those two lines.

   //dtaSend[BIT_DATA+4]     = 192;
//dtaSend[BIT_DATA+5] = 63;

Of course you can also define many buttons:

#include <IRSendRev.h>

#define BIT_LEN 0
#define BIT_START_H 1
#define BIT_START_L 2
#define BIT_DATA_H 3
#define BIT_DATA_L 4
#define BIT_DATA_LEN 5
#define BIT_DATA 6

const int ir_freq = 38;

unsigned char OpenTV[20];
unsigned char CloseTV[20];
unsigned char IncreaseTemp[20];
unsigned char DecreaseTemp[20];

void OpenTVInit()
{
OpenTV[BIT_LEN] = 11;
OpenTV[BIT_START_H] = 179;
/*............ omit ............*/
}

void CloseTVInit()
{
CloseTV[BIT_LEN] = 11;
CloseTV[BIT_START_H] = 179;
/*............ omit ............*/
}

void IncreaseTempInit()
{
IncreaseTemp[BIT_LEN] = 11;
IncreaseTemp[BIT_START_H] = 179;
/*............ omit ............*/
}

void DecreaseTempInit()
{
DecreaseTemp[BIT_LEN] = 11;
DecreaseTemp[BIT_START_H] = 179;
/*............ omit ............*/
}

void setup()
{
OpenTVInit();
CloseTVInit();
IncreaseTempInit();
DecreaseTempInit();
}

void loop()
{
IR.Send(OpenTV, 38);
delay(200);
IR.Send(CloseTV, 38);
delay(200);
IR.Send(IncreaseTemp, 38);
delay(200);
IR.Send(DecreaseTemp, 38);

delay(2000);
}

Add Speech Recognizer to your IRSend program

  • It's very simple to use Speech Recognizer alone, please see the wiki of it first.

We can choose what buttons we need according to the table; Table of return value, Grove - Speech Recognizer; of return value of Speech Recognizer. Following is the table of return value:

Command Return Value
Turn on the light 1
Turn off the light 2
Play music 3
Pause 4
Next 5
Previous 6
Up 7
Down 8
Turn on the TV 9
Turn off the TV 10
Increase temperature 11
Decrease temperature 12
What's the time 13
Open the door 14
Close the door 15
Left 16
Right 17
Stop 18
Start 19
Mode 1 20
Mode 2 21
Go 22

The following example uses two commands: "Turn of the TV" and "Turn off the TV"

  • After reading, we can embed the program of Speech Recognizer in the IRSend program. See the following completed program:
#include <IRSendRev.h>
#include <SoftwareSerial.h>

/*======== IR type ========*/

#define BIT_LEN 0
#define BIT_START_H 1
#define BIT_START_L 2
#define BIT_DATA_H 3
#define BIT_DATA_L 4
#define BIT_DATA_LEN 5
#define BIT_DATA 6
const int ir_freq = 38; // 38k

/* ======== How many IR buttons you wanna send ========*/

unsigned char OpenTV[20];
unsigned char CloseTV[20];


/*========= Choose the pins of Speech Recognizer ==========*/

#define SOFTSERIAL_RX_PIN 5
#define SOFTSERIAL_TX_PIN 6

SoftwareSerial speech(SOFTSERIAL_RX_PIN,SOFTSERIAL_TX_PIN);


/* ======= How to write the IR data ========*/
/* ==== You can get those data via IR Recevier ==== */

void OpenTVInit()
{
OpenTV[BIT_LEN] = 9; // all data that needs to be sent
OpenTV[BIT_START_H] = 180; // the logic high duration of "OpenTV"
OpenTV[BIT_START_L] = 88; // the logic low duration of "OpenTV"
OpenTV[BIT_DATA_H] = 11; // the logic "long" duration in the communication
OpenTV[BIT_DATA_L] = 33; // the logic "short" duration in the communication

OpenTV[BIT_DATA_LEN] = 4; // Number of data which will sent. If the number is other, you should increase or reduce dtaSend[BIT_DATA+x].

OpenTV[BIT_DATA+0] = 50; // data that will sent
OpenTV[BIT_DATA+1] = 166;
OpenTV[BIT_DATA+2] = 80;
OpenTV[BIT_DATA+3] = 175;
}

void CloseTVInit()
{
CloseTV[BIT_LEN] = 9; // all data that needs to be sent
CloseTV[BIT_START_H] = 178; // the logic high duration of "CloseTV"
CloseTV[BIT_START_L] = 89; // the logic low duration of "CloseTV"
CloseTV[BIT_DATA_H] = 10; // the logic "long" duration in the communication
CloseTV[BIT_DATA_L] = 33; // the logic "short" duration in the communication

CloseTV[BIT_DATA_LEN] = 4; // Number of data which will sent. If the number is other, you should increase or reduce dtaSend[BIT_DATA+x].

CloseTV[BIT_DATA+0] = 50; // data that will sent
CloseTV[BIT_DATA+1] = 166;
CloseTV[BIT_DATA+2] = 168;
CloseTV[BIT_DATA+3] = 87;
}


void setup()
{
OpenTVInit()
CloseTVInit()
Serial.begin(9600);
speech.begin(9600);
speech.listen();
}

void loop()
{
int a=0;

if(speech.available())
{
a = speech.read(); // Read the return value from the Speech Recognizer
switch (a)
{
case 9: // if (return value) then send (IR data)
IR.Send(OpenTV, 38);
delay(1000);
break;
case 10:
IR.Send(CloseTV, 38);
delay(1000);
break;
default:
break;
}
}
}

How to control music

Watch the commands of Speech Recognizer, there're many commands which are related to music, such as "Play music", "Pause", "Stop", "Previous", "Next". So let's do this Speech Music Box!

Download necessary libraries from github: Grove_Serial_MP3_Player_V2.0; library, Grove - MP3 v2.0, pay attention to the path of your libraries: .../arduino/libraries .

Useful functions about Grove - MP3 v2

There're some useful basic functions of Grove - MP3:

PlayPause();    // pause music
PlayResume(); // restart a music
PlayNext(); // next song
PlayPrevious(); // previous song
PlayLoop(); // loop all songs
SetVolume(uint8_t volume); // set volume. default value is "0x0E", the range is 0x00 to 0x1E.
IncreaseVolume(); // increase volume
DecreaseVolume(); // decrease volume

But there're some special functions you need to pay attention:

  • SelectPlayerDevice(uint8t device). _The default device value is 0x02, Select SD card as the player device.
SelectPlayerDevice(0x02);
  • SpecifyMusicPlay(uint16t index). _play a song by name.
Pay attention to the name of songs, you can set a name like following type:

So we can play the song "005" by this function:
SpecifyMusicPlay(5);
  • SpecifyfolderPlay(uint8_t folder, uint8_t index); // play a song by name in a appointed folder
Furthermore, sometimes we may play music in a new folder, the previous function comes in handy.

note

The folder index range is 01-99, so the folders’ name will only be any number 01 between 99. Pay attention to the number between 1-9, the name of folder should be added to 01-09.

So if we want to play the "005" in the folder "01", we can do this:

SpecifyfolderPlay(1,5);
  • Other attention:

Each song has its length of time, so if you want to appoint songs one by one, there've two ways you can choose:

delay(length of time);  // delay the length of time until the song is played out

while(QueryPlayStatus() != 0); // Return: 0: played out; 1: not play out

Normally, we can use the latter. For example:


SpecifyMusicPlay(1);
while(QueryPlayStatus() != 0);
SpecifyMusicPlay(2);
while(QueryPlayStatus() != 0);
SpecifyMusicPlay(3);
while(QueryPlayStatus() != 0);

Integrated Program

OK, let's embed Speech Recognizer and Grove - MP3 together. The following demo can control some MP3 functions: play music, pause music, continue music, next song, previous song.

  • Copy the program and upload it to your Arduino UNO.

  • Plug Base Shield onto the Arduino UNO,and plug the Grove - MP3 v2 onto the D2 port of Base Shield.

# include <SoftwareSerial.h>

# include <MP3Player_KT403A.h>

/****** Define the pins of MP3 ******/
SoftwareSerial mp3(2, 3);

/****** Define the pins of Speech Recognizer ******/

# define SOFTSERIAL_RX_PIN 5

# define SOFTSERIAL_TX_PIN 6

SoftwareSerial speech(SOFTSERIAL_RX_PIN,SOFTSERIAL_TX_PIN);

void setup()
{
mp3.begin(9600);
speech.begin(9600);
Serial.begin(9600);
delay(100);

SelectPlayerDevice(0x02); // Select SD card as the player device.
SetVolume(0x15); // Set the volume, the range is 0x00 to 0x1E.
}

void loop()
{
int a=0;
if(speech.available())
{
a = speech.read(); // Read the return value from the Speech Recognizer
switch (a)
{
case 3: // speech command : Play music
SpecifyMusicPlay(1); // MP3: play the name of "001"
break;
case 4: // speech command : Pause
PlayPause(); // MP3: pause music
break;
case 19: // speech command : Start
PlayResume(); // MP3: continue music
break;
case 5: // speech command : Next
PlayNext(); // MP3: play next song
break;
case 6: // speech command : Previous
PlayPrevious(); // MP3: play previous song
break;
default:
break;
}

delay(1000);
}
}

How to broadcast real-time

Did you use Grove - MP3 to broadcast real-time? Let's have a try via Speech Recognizer, Grove - MP3, and Grove - RTC.

Adjust the real-time

Download necessary libraries from github: RTC_DS1307;library, Grove - RTC;, pay attention to the path of your libraries: .../arduino/libraries .

  • Open the example file of "SetTimeAndDisplay" : File --> Sketchbook --> libraries --> RTC_DS1307 --> SetTimeAndDisplay.

  • Plug Base Shield onto the Arduino UNO,and plug the Grove - RTC onto the I2C of Base Shield.

  • Set the right time of RTC.

clock.fillByYMD(2016,1,19);//May 23,2016
clock.fillByHMS(15,28,30);//15:28 30"
clock.fillDayOfWeek(Mon);//Saturday
  • Upload the modified program to your Arduino UNO.

Text-to-speech

As all we known, it has 60 numbers while broadcasting time (0 ~ 59), and we can mouth some words before the MP3 broadcast the time (It's). So we need to add 61 sound files in SD Card.

But there're some tips about SD card you need to pay attention to:
  • Form of SD Card: FAT32.

  • Format SD Card before deleting any songs; Nothing should to do while adding any songs.

  • The sequence of playing is depended on the sequence of song addition in SD Card. so if we want to play some songs in order, we need to add those songs in SD Card in order.

By the way, we have ranked 61 sound files in a folder, you can download it and copy it to your SD Card. Of course you may need to format SD Card first.

Name of Sound File NO. of file in SD Card Voice Text
000 1th 0
001 2th 1
... ... ...
059 60th 59
060 61th It's

Integrated Program and broadcast real-time

  • Plug Base Shield onto the Arduino UNO; plug Grove - MP3 v2 onto the D2 port of Base shield; plug Grove - Speech Recognizer onto the D5 port of Base Shield; plug Grove - RTC onto the I2C port of Base Shield.

  • Copy the following codes on a new sketch of Arduino IDE and upload the program to Arduino UNO.

  • Say "HiCell, What's the time" , the MP3 will broadcast the real-time.


# include <Wire.h>

# include "DS1307.h"

# include <SoftwareSerial.h>

# include <MP3Player_KT403A.h>

/******* Define the pins of MP3 ******/
SoftwareSerial mp3(2, 3);

/******* Define the pins of Speech Recognizer ******/

# define SOFTSERIAL_RX_PIN 5

# define SOFTSERIAL_TX_PIN 6

SoftwareSerial speech(SOFTSERIAL_RX_PIN,SOFTSERIAL_TX_PIN);

/******* Define a object of DS1307 class ******/
DS1307 clock;//define a object of DS1307 class

void setup ()
{
mp3.begin(9600);
speech.begin(9600);
clock.begin();
Serial.begin(9600);
delay(100);

SelectPlayerDevice(0x02); // Select SD card as the player device.
SetVolume(0x15); // Set the volume, the range is 0x00 to 0x1E.
}

void loop ()
{
int a=0;
speech.listen(); // start to receiver data from the software port of Speech Recognizer
if(speech.available())
{
a = speech.read(); // Read the return value from the Speech Recognizer
if(a==13)
{
clock.getTime(); // get the real-time from Grove - RTC
int b=1+clock.hour; // get hour data; because the 1th name of song is the voice "0" , so in order to get the voice "60" (it's) , the number of the name should be added 1.
int c=1+clock.minute; // get hour data; because the 1th name of song is the voice "0" , so in order to get the voice "60" (it's) , the number of the name should be added 1.

mp3.listen(); // start to receiver data from the software port of Grove - MP3
SpecifyMusicPlay(61); // The voice "It's" is the name of "61" song in the folder of SD card
while(QueryPlayStatus() != 0); // play next song before the previous song is played out
SpecifyMusicPlay(b); // play the name of "b" song in the folder of SD card
while(QueryPlayStatus() != 0);
SpecifyMusicPlay(c); // play the name of "c" song in the folder of SD card
while(QueryPlayStatus() != 0);
}
}
delay(1000);
}

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