Control your PC with your phone by voice.

To get voice control running on my Linux laptop proved to be a mess. Running voice control on my Android phone was a breeze. Connecting the two is rudimentary. So now I can talk to my phone while on stage and the right presentation pops up on my laptop that sits on the otheer side of the stage. Or any other creative scenario you may imagine.

Here is a video to show how this works:

You need a phone running the apps Termux and Termux:API (giving youtermux-tts-speak and termux-speech-to-text). You also need to install Ruby and OpenSSL by using pkg install inside termux.

Generate ssh keys on your phone and upload them to your PC running sshd and accepting ssh connection. Unless you have a static IP on your PC, both devices must be connected to the same local wifi network. This may well work on a Windows or Mac PC. I have only tested this on Linux and with an Android phone.

In order to not have to enter your password when connection to your PC (or worse - say it aloud), you upload the ssh keys from your phone to your PC like this:

cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh [email protected] "cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys"

Replace "user" with your user on the PC and "192.168.0.2" with the actual IP address of your PC.

You need the program Android/pc running on your phone and the program PC/remotescript running on your pc.

Start the program pc on your phone and listen to the woman's gentle voice saying "My love, where do you want to go today?". You answer back with the IP address of your PC. If you have previously given her the IP address and want to connect to the same, simply answer her "The same as last time, dear" (or indeed any sentence containing the word "same". Note that the list sound you make will not be captured, so you need to add a word at the end of the address, such as "192 168 0 2 done" and the program will capture you voice and translate that to "192.168.0.2".

The lady will then say "Your wish is my command", at which point you can add a command that will be given as a parameter to the program that will be run on the PC (the remotescript program). This parameter can be anything, but I have chosen to use a number above 100 as a code (see remotescript). If you give no parameter or a parameter unknown to remotescript, it will be disregarded and the default action will be run (again see remotescript).

After the action on the PC is completed, the lady will end off with "Thank you for the pleasant connection."

Tweak this as you wish and enjoy talking to the nice lady.