Python Speech Recognition

Question

I'm wanting to make a program on my Linux dev environment, and I want it to open certain programs when I speak something, like "Open Opera" would open my browser. Anyone know some good speech recognition libraries and how would I get that running in the background?

Answer 1

yes, you can use speech_recognition and pyttsx. I actually did a similar project. here's an overview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A879U7Hj5bw