Botium Connector for Webspeech Input/Output

This is a Botium connector for using audio input and output via Webspeech API

Did you read the Botium in a Nutshell articles ? Be warned, without prior knowledge of Botium you won't be able to properly use this library!

How it works ?

Botium starts a web browser and utilizes the integrated Webspeech controls to start a conversation with whoever is sitting in front of the workstation. This can be a human, but also an Alexa or Google device.

For obvious reasons, this Botium connector only works on a workstation with graphical user interface, not in a typical CI/CD environment

It can be used as any other Botium connector with all Botium Stack components:

• Botium CLI
• Botium Bindings
• Botium Box

Requirements

• Node.js and NPM
• a Web Browser (Currently, the only desktop browser to support Webspeech API is Google Chrome)
• a project directory on your workstation to hold test cases and Botium configuration

Install Botium and Webspeech Connector

When using Botium CLI:

> npm install -g botium-cli
> npm install -g botium-connector-webspeech
> botium-cli init
> botium-cli run

When using Botium Bindings:

> npm install -g botium-bindings
> npm install -g botium-connector-webspeech
> botium-bindings init mocha
> npm install && npm run mocha

When using Botium Box:

Already integrated into Botium Box, no setup required

Connecting with Botium

{
  "botium": {
    "Capabilities": {
      "PROJECTNAME": "<whatever>",
      "CONTAINERMODE": "webspeech"
    }
  }
}

Supported Capabilities

Set the capability CONTAINERMODE to webspeech to activate this connector.

const Capabilities = {
  WEBSPEECH_SERVER_PORT: 'WEBSPEECH_SERVER_PORT',
  WEBSPEECH_LANGUAGE: 'WEBSPEECH_LANGUAGE',
  WEBSPEECH_PITCH: 'WEBSPEECH_PITCH',
  WEBSPEECH_RATE: 'WEBSPEECH_RATE',
  WEBSPEECH_VOLUME: 'WEBSPEECH_VOLUME',
  WEBSPEECH_VOICE: 'WEBSPEECH_VOICE',
  WEBSPEECH_CLOSEBROWSER: 'WEBSPEECH_CLOSEBROWSER',
  WEBSPEECH_BROWSER_APP: 'WEBSPEECH_BROWSER_APP'
}

const Defaults = {
  [Capabilities.WEBSPEECH_SERVER_PORT]: 46050,
  [Capabilities.WEBSPEECH_LANGUAGE]: 'en-US',
  [Capabilities.WEBSPEECH_CLOSEBROWSER]: true,
  [Capabilities.WEBSPEECH_BROWSER_APP]: 'chrome'  
}