Extension:Voice Commander

Voice Commander is an extension for MediaWiki that allows for voice commands in MediaWiki. The digital assistant is called Kate. Various commands can be spoken and executed by this extension. Thus it allows for jumping to pages, search for pages or allows for entering information into MediaWiki. The extension is based on the JavaScript library annyang.

Check Installation and Support of your Browser

 * Go to Special Page:Version and see if it has been installed successfully
 * Go to Special Page: Voice Commander under the section Data and Tools of your MediaWiki and see if your Browser supports the extension
 * Currently only Chrome Browser supports the Speech Recognition functionality.

Preferences

 * Under user preferences can the style of the Voice Commander be changed.
 * Under preferences can the Always On functionality be toggled.



Commands
The following commands and functionality is given by Kate:




 * Apply a Command by clicking on the bottom on the top left.
 * Or if the Always On functionality is enabled, then start with Ok., Kate
 * The Voice Commander starts to listen
 * Once the user stops talking, the commander stops listening and applies the command.
 * If the command was not understood, then a message is given to the user.



Always On Functionality

 * The allows on functionality listens to everything the user says.
 * Commands can be applied by saying Ok Kate, 
 * This feature is disabled by default but can be toggled under preferences.

Statistics

 * Statistics are send to an API in order to improve the functionality. However, it can be disabled by commenting out the correpsonding code lines.

Known issues

 * Under Preferences can be the style of the Voice Commander be changed. However, the Basic Theme is always toggled.