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I can't find an easy way to install Simon voice recognition software on Ubuntu 18.04. What is the easiest way?

If you know an alternative that can be installed on Debian or Ubuntu let me know. Wrist problems and a voice recognition to control my station would be more than welcome.

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    If you know an alternative that can be installed on Debian or Ubuntu let me know. Wrist problems and a voice recognition to control my station would be more than welcome
    – Jean-Francois Bourdeau
    Aug 2, 2018 at 22:01
  • I have added your comment into your post.
    – zwets
    Aug 7, 2018 at 11:55
  • I found an step-by-step here : userbase.kde.org/Simon/Development_Environment
    – vic31
    Jan 21, 2019 at 19:36

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It's no longer in the repositories for 18.04 and hence you need to compile it from source. First pull it from the git repo using

git clone git://anongit.kde.org/simon simonsource

Install the build dependencies

sudo apt-get install cmake kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-dbg kdelibs5-dev

And then build it

cd simonsource
./build_ubuntu.sh
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    Here is the Comment referred to earlier in my last Comment. Problem in ./build_ubuntu.sh - stops within a minute (notable to include all log due to restrictions on this site: Qwt 6.x include dir not found CMake Error at cmake/FindQwt6.cmake:114 (MESSAGE): Could not find Qwt 6.x Call Stack (most recent call first): CMakeLists.txt:24 (find_package) -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! See also "/home/john/simonsource/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log". See also "/home/john/simonsource/build/CMakeFiles/CMakeError.log".
    – John Rose
    Sep 1, 2018 at 6:08
  • the git repo is now located at invent.kde.org/unmaintained/simon
    – Ali Ghanavatian
    Oct 12, 2020 at 15:21
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Since simon was dropped from the 18.04 repositories, installation is not easy, and requires downloading its source code and compiling it. This is non-trivial.

Alternatives? CMUsphinx is just a toolkit which simon uses, and freespeech AKA OpenMindSpeech is less. julius, another toolkit simon uses, exists and is in the 18.04 repositories, but is nowhere near as well documented as simon. Installing julius is simple: open a terminal window and type in

sudo apt-get install julius

Should you find julius wanting, this article goes into great detail on an alternative through Google Docs.

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  • Is it, or is it not in the repositories?
    – mikewhatever
    Aug 2, 2018 at 23:18
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git clone git://anongit.kde.org/simon simonsource

sudo apt-get install cmake kdelibs-bin kdelibs5-dbg kdelibs5-dev

sudo apt-get install libqwt-dev

Add in file: simonsource/build/simonlib/simonactions/moc_actionmanager.cpp (last line)

#include "../../../simonlib/simonactions/actionmanager.h" // behind this line:9
#include <QHash>                                          // add this line

Save file and compile.

cd simonsource

./build_ubuntu.sh

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