# About

Rhasspy was created and is currently maintained by [Michael Hansen](https://synesthesiam.com/).

![Mike head](img/mike-head.png)

Special thanks to:

* [Romkabouter](https://github.com/Romkabouter)
* [koenvervloesem](https://github.com/koenvervloesem)
* [FunkyBoT](https://community.home-assistant.io/u/FunkyBoT)
* [S_n_Nguy_n](https://community.home-assistant.io/u/S_n_Nguy_n)

## Supporting Tools

The following tools/libraries help to support Rhasspy:

* [eSpeak](http://espeak.sourceforge.net) (text to speech)
* [flair](http://github.com/zalandoresearch/flair) (intent recognition)
* [Flask](http://flask.pocoo.org) (web server)
* [flite](http://www.festvox.org/flite) (text to speech)
* [fuzzywuzzy](https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy) (fuzzy string matching)
* [Kaldi](https://kaldi-asr.org) (speech to text)
* [MaryTTS](http://mary.dfki.de) (text to speech)
* [Montreal Forced Aligner](https://montreal-forced-aligner.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) (acoustic models)
* [Mycroft Adapt](https://github.com/MycroftAI/adapt) (intent recognition)
* [Mycroft Precise](https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-precise) (wake word)
* [Phonetisaurus](https://github.com/AdolfVonKleist/Phonetisaurus) (word pronunciations)
* [PicoTTS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVOX) (text to speech)
* [Pocketsphinx](https://github.com/cmusphinx/pocketsphinx) (speech to text, wake word)
* [porcupine](https://github.com/Picovoice/Porcupine) (wake word)
* [PyAudio](https://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/) (microphone)
* [pyjsgf](https://github.com/Danesprite/pyjsgf) (JSGF grammar parsing)
* [Python 3](https://www.python.org)
* [OpenFST](http://www.openfst.org) (intent recognition)
* [Opengrm](http://www.opengrm.org/twiki/bin/view/GRM/NGramLibrary) (language modeling)
* [Rasa NLU](https://rasa.com/) (intent recognition)
* [sphinxtrain](https://github.com/cmusphinx/sphinxtrain) (acoustic model tuning)
* [snowboy](https://snowboy.kitt.ai) (wake word)
* [Sox](http://sox.sourceforge.net) (WAV conversion)
* [Vue.js](https://vuejs.org/) (web UI)
* [webrtcvad](https://github.com/wiseman/py-webrtcvad) (voice activity detection)
