Line-Cook

Line-cook is a cooking-helper app for iOS that utilizes iPhone's speech-synthesis/speech-recognition to allow users to cook while their device reads recipe steps aloud to them. You can get the best sense for how it works by watching this video demo.

Core Functionalities

1. Search for recipes via the BigOven API
2. Choose a recipe from search results
3. View recipe ingredients and steps and issue voice commands
4. Create an account to save favorite recipes

Voice Commands

Command	Result
Start	Begins recipe recitation
Next	Reads off next step in recipe
Repeat	Repeats current step in recipe
Quit	Disables listener

Apis

Apache Cordova

Line-Cook is a native JavaScript app built on the Apache Cordova mobile platform

OpenEars

Line-Cook utilizes OpenEars to enable speech recognition and speech synthesis on iOS

Run This Project From Mac OS X:

Requirements

• OS X Mavericks or higher (though it may work on earlier versions)
• Xcode
• Node and Node Package Manager (npm)

Set-Up (Command Line and Xcode)

1. From the command line, using npm, download Apache Cordova. sudo npm install -g cordova This will require root access.

2. Clone the line-cook repository

3. From the command line, navigate to line-cook/workshop

4. From this directory , add the iOS mobile platform. From the command line, type: cordova platform add ios

5. You will also need this command: npm install -g ios-sim

6. See that the platform was added successfully by typing this command: cordova platform ls You should see Installed platforms: ios 3.8.0.

   NOTE: The following steps are due to a bug in the OpenEars speech processing library, and require some modifications to Xcode. A more permanent fix will be available shortly.

7. Open Xcode, and navigate to "Open Another Project"

8. Go to line-cook/workshop/platforms/ios and open Workshop.xcodeproj

9. Once the project navigator is open, click on Workshop (the first on the list)

10. This will open a Workshop.xcodeproj window with different settings.

• in the "General" setting, scroll down to "Linked Frameworks and Libraries"
• hit the + at the bottom, to add another library
• In the next window that opens, click Add Other...
• navigate to line-cook/OpenEars/src/ios/Framework
• Choose Kal16.framework
• Click Open
• Save the project

###Instructions (JavaScript)

• Navigate to line-cook/workshop/www/js
• Open app.js
• Line 1 reads:

var serverUrl = "http://10.0.2.210:3000"

• change this value to your own computer's IP address, to serve port 3000
• save the file

###Instructions (Ruby)

• In a new shell, navigate to line-cook/simple_backend
• bundle install for required gems
• launch the thin server with:

bundle exec thin start