Make sure voice text the result is a int instead of text

kitkat

I am making a simple application to learn how homey works. I want to know if you can already make Homey know that the response will be a number and not text.

Is this possible ? or do I have to use other solutions ?

kitkat

When I run a app and kill it this is what i get when i run it again: 

[Error: already asking]

But the led already changed (to not listening). The only fix for this is to reboot homey

kitkat

Emile can you confirm you guys are considering to open the speech api a bit more ? 
Once I used api.ai and they had some functionality that you guys also should have, like what i proposed in this topic

That way there will be allot more "hits".
Think of scenarios like:
- People will say a number
- People will make a choice out of a list (instead of homey listening to everything, you should make sure it only listens for one of the words in the list)
- Control time out time for listening 

I don't know if you guys ever considered to bundle your powers with a company that already specializes in speech like api.ai or others then you guys can focus more on the product and less on speech-problems  
Just a hint i know its not that easy.

kitkat

Can someone answer  this ? Because i want to create apps where you can set a temperature but the spoken text is always a string it doesnt export it to a number.

I read something about that you guys use wit.ai ? they have options to do this right ?

bvdbos

parseInt(string) doesn't work?

kitkat

BasVanDenBosch said:

parseInt(string) doesn't work?

Nope because it expects that a number is in the string like 25 insted of twenty-five.
So if i say: 
"Set temperature to twenty-five"
parsesInt would give back Nan.
Or else Athom has to find a way to make sure every number will be parsed to a real number like "25" instead of "twenty-five"

kitkat

A response by Athom member would be nice. This is important for app development. And the documentation is already lacking as hell....

DaneeDeKruyff

So if I understand you correctly you want the oposite of this: https://github.com/scottbea/spoken-numbers

Does sound like a very good idea to have such functionality available!

(Edit, I'm sorry, the forum software keeps fucking up the url, I can't get it ok, guess you'll have to copy paste it to the addressbar)

kitkat

DaneeDeKruyff said:

So if I understand you correctly you want the oposite of this: https://github.com/scottbea/spoken-numbers

Does sound like a very good idea to have such functionality available!

(Edit, I'm sorry, the forum software keeps fucking up the url, I can't get it ok, guess you'll have to copy paste it to the addressbar)

Yes exactly but for example go to wit.ai or API.ai. (I read somewhere Athom uses wit) There a developer can create "intent" like for example the developer already expects that the user will say a number and he needs a number in his code to work. That way the spoken text will also search for a number word and write it in a number in the string. We need this functionality really... Or else each application that requires a number will not work. For example user says: "Go to channel four" "Set temp to twenty" "Remember me in five minutes" Everything that has a number in will not work.

DaneeDeKruyff

@emile can you please comment on this?

Emile

Homey should already convert spoken numbers to ints. I'll inves

Robert

Converting spelled out English numbers to ints has already been developed some time ago for Homey, but it has not yet been implemented because I wanted to include number conversion for Dutch in the same update. To make new app development easier we'll make sure to include English number conversion in update 0.8.24. Dutch will follow in a later version, as this is still under development. 

Example:
As of V0.8.24 speech.transcript for 

"set the temperature to twenty-five degrees" 

will look like this:

"set the temperature to 25 degrees"

kitkat

Awesome ! Thanks look forward to it