Functions

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Speak

All speak functions output can be randomized by using ; in the phrase.

  • Basic Speaking function
    • [Speak("Phrase")]
  • Speaks using specified values, allows you to change volume but is SYNCHRONOUS ONLY so it will NOT STOP the speech - blocks the flow
    • [SpeakEx("Phrase","Volume","Rate","VoiceName")]
Phrase: Phrase to speak
Volume: 0 - 100
Rate: -10 to 10
VoiceName: full voice name (case sensitive) (e.g. Microsoft Zira Desktop or Microsoft David Desktop etc..)
  • Speaks from LINKS using a text file as source using Web Service
    • [LINKS.LExecute.SpeakTextFileFromLINKS("c:\temp\test.txt")]
  • Speaks from LINKS using a text file as source
    • [GetFile("c:\temp\test.txt")]
Putting this in UI will allow LINKS to speak the text file.
  • Sets speech volume
    • [SetSpeechVolume("volume")]
volume: 0 - 100
  • Change voice
    • [SetSpeechVoice("VoiceName")]
VoiceName: Full name of the voice to be used for speech; case sensitive

Gets data from a file

  • [GetFile("c:\test.txt")]
If file path is not defined and uses %APPDATA%\LINKS\Data\Strings as the default directory.
In web request we can add &output=response to see plain text response in browser.

Executes any non-dynamic (non-WordList) commands

  • [CallCommand("Command")]
Command: any command from user interface

Executes any command/Emulates speech

  • [EmulateSpeech("Command")]
Command: any command from user interface

Executes an external programs or run as shell command action

  • [RunAsShell("Shell Action","Response after execution","Response before execution","Response on fail")]

Executes a shell command with voice name and volume specified

  • [RunAsShell("Shell Action","Response After Execution","Response Before Confirmation","Response Failed","VoiceVolume,"VoiceName")]
VoiceName: Full name of the voice to be used for speech
VoiceVolume: 0 - 100
If voice change does not work, then leave voice name blank to make volume change affected
This function also has compatibility issue for voice change and may not work on some machines.

Executes a shell command with specified system volume

  • [RunAsShellSysVol("shellCommand","responseAfterExecution","responseBeforeConfirmation","responseFailed","voiceVolume)]

Run a task according to a time and date with a specific voice name and voice volume

  • [SetTaskEx("datetime","speechBefore","speechAfter","speechFailed","VoiceVoice","VoiceVolume","shell action")]
VoiceName: Full name of the voice to be used for speech
VoiceVolume: 0 - 100

Run a task according to a time and date with a specific voice name and system volume

  • [SetTaskExSysVol("datetime","speechBefore","speechAfter","speechFailed","VoiceName","SysVolume","shell action")]
VoiceName: Full name of the voice to be used for speech
SysVolume: 0 - 100

Stop/Start web service

  • [Speak("Stoppping web service")]&request=disable
  • [Speak("Web service enabled")]&request=enable

Stop/start listening

  • [ToggleListening]
  • [StartListening("[PlaySound("Startup_Music")]Listening Started")]
  • [StopListening("[PlaySound("Startup_Music")]Listening Stopped")]

Speech to text using Cortana

  • [Cortana.LDictation.GetDictation("Question phrase","show_ui")]
Shows Windows 10 style dialogue box for voice prompt via Cortana.
  • [Cortana.LDictation.GetDictation("Question phrase","hide_ui")]]

Web Search

  • [LINKS.WebSearch.bingQuery("Search Query"," response on fail")]
Note: Search query can also come from Cortana or from windows speech recognition.
Might not work on certain machines. Try going to bing.com and change region to US English.

Get data from web/url

  • [LINKS.LHttp.GetResponse("http://jarvis.ai-dot.net/test.txt","return","{error}")]
Make sure to encode the url you like to get response from. See Bing URL Encoder

Return full grammar list in response

  • [GetGrammarList("XML")]&output=xml&request=disable_recurse
  • [GetGrammarList("XML")]&output=response&request=disable_recurse
  • [GetGrammarList("JSON")]&output=json&request=disable_recurse
  • [GetGrammarList("JSON")]&output=response&request=disable_recurse

Set microphone level

  • [SetMicrophone("volume","mute")]
volume: 0 - 100
mute_unmute: mute, unmute

Speech/sound file to text

  • [SpeechToText("c:\temp\1.wav","DictationOrGrammar")]
DictationOrGrammar: Can use these 2 keywords. Dictatation or Grammar, so when funtion recognizes the wave file it will use loaded grammar or use dictation.

Set a reminder

  • [SetReminder("MilliSeconds","Phrase","Volume")]
MilliSeconds: Time in milliseconds
Phrase: Phrase to be spoken, can be randomized using ; as phrase separator
Volume: 0 - 100 

Set a reminder and emulate speech

  • [SetReminderEx("DateTime ","phrase","volume","EmulateSpeech” )]
DateTime: system date format like: 04/01/2016 02:29:00 PM or 04/01/2016 14:29:00
Phrase: Phrase to be spoken, can be randomized using ; as phrase separator
Volume: 0 - 100 
EmulateSpeech: can be replaced by any grammar... like "turn of the lights"

Import commands remotely

  • [AddCommands("F:\20160401_export_shell.txt")]
  • [AddCommands("F:\20160401_export_web.txt")]
  • [AddCommands("F:\20160401_export_social.txt")]
  • [AddCommands("F:\20160401_export_default.txt")]
  • [AddCommands("F:\20160401_export_keyboard.txt")]
Imports command files to database directly, does not check for duplicates.
Make sure file name ends with _shell, _web, _social, _default, or _keyboard.

Set a variable

  • [Set("VariableName","Value")]
VariableName: Name given to variable
Variable: Variable value
Sets and stores a variable for later use

Get a variable

  • [Get("VariableName")]
VariableName: Name given to variable

Get a value from WordList

  • [GetWord("WordList","Grammar","Column Header Or Number")]
things.txt
Grammar Value Size
milk Milk 1 Gallon
bread Some brand bread Family
detergent Some brand pods detergent 40+

As an example we make a text file things.txt with 3 columns. Note: There is no limit on number of columns

Now if we want to get size of a product from the list above, we call as follows: [GetWord("things","milk","Size")] - Result would be 1 Gallon

Get Request

  • [LINKS.LHttp.Get("https://maker.ifttt.com/trigger/{event}/with/key/REPLACE_ME","Say this on success","Say this on error or {error} to get actual error message.","WaitTimeInMS")]

Get Response

  • [LINKS.LHttp.GetResponse("http://ai-dot.net/test.txt","unused","Say this on error or {error} to get actual error message.")]

Put Request

  • [LINKS.LHttp.Put("{"on":"true"}","http://<hueIPAddress>/api/<applicationAPIkey>/lights/1/state")]

Post Request

  • [LINKS.LHttp.Post("url","contentToPost","JSON_Formatted_Headers","returnContentType_bydefault it's application/json")]
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