Configuration

This section helps you to configure options such as giving Leon a voice, understand your voice, etc.

Warning

These files should stay on your machine, never push them to a remote repository. By default, they are already being ignored thanks to the .gitignore file.

Environment Variables

The environment variables included in the following table can be found in the .env file located at the project root directory.

Variable	Description	Values
LEON_LANG	Leon's language and his understanding. If you change the language, run: npm run train expressions.	en-US (default); fr-FR
LEON_NODE_ENV	Environment.	development (default); production; testing
LEON_HOST	Leon's host. Use your machine IP address to access Leon from the outside.	http://localhost (default)
LEON_PORT	Leon's port.	1337 (default)
LEON_TIME_ZONE	Leon's time zone.	Your current time zone (default); Moment Timezone
LEON_AFTER_SPEECH	Enable/disable auto listening after talking. No need to say Leon when you have talked once.	true; false (default)
LEON_STT	Enable/disable STT.	true; false (default)
LEON_STT_PROVIDER	STT provider.	coqui-stt (default); google-cloud-stt; watson-stt
LEON_TTS	Enable/disable TTS.	true; false (default)
LEON_TTS_PROVIDER	TTS provider.	flite (default); google-cloud-tts; amazon-polly; watson-tts
LEON_LOGGER	Enable/disable collaborative logger.	true (default); false
PIPENV_PIPFILE	Pipfile path. Do not touch it unless you know what you are doing.	bridges/python/Pipfile (default)
PIPENV_VENV_IN_PROJECT	Create the virtualenv at the same level as the Pipfile. Do not touch it unless you know what you are doing.	true (default)

Voice

Leon has multiple providers for his STT and TTS. You can configure one (or several) and choose your favorite.

Tip

To enable the Leon's STT and/or Leon's TTS, in your .env file, you need to set LEON_STT=true and/or LEON_TTS=true.

Also, you need to inquire the provider by setting LEON_STT_PROVIDER={YOUR STT CHOSEN PROVIDER} and/or LEON_TTS_PROVIDER={YOUR TTS CHOSEN PROVIDER}. Please see the environment variables section to know the providers values.

Offline

Please follow this section.

Amazon

Amazon Polly (TTS)

1. Create a new IAM user on the AWS console. Choose a User name and in the Access type section, check Programmatic access. Then click Next.
2. In the permissions section, use the Attach existing policies directly option and search for Polly. Then check the AmazonPollyFullAccess item. Then click Next (and skip the tag section).
3. Hit the Create user button.
4. You can see the Access key ID and you can also display the Secret access key. Copy both of them and paste them to the server/src/config/voice/amazon.json Leon's file.

Google Cloud

When using this provider, the credentials are the same for the STT and TTS.

Google Cloud STT & Google Cloud TTS

1. Create or select a project on the GCP (Google Cloud Platform).
2. Enable the STT API and/or the TTS API.
3. Create a service account key.
4. Download the JSON file and copy its content to the: server/src/config/voice/google-cloud.json Leon's file.

Tip

The GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS environment variable is used by Google to load the credentials. Leon creates and set the value of this environment variable for you.

Watson

IBM Watson has credentials for each STT service and each TTS service.

Watson STT

1. Click here to create a Speech to Text service.
2. Click on Create (or Sign up to Create if you do not have an account yet).
3. Click on Service credentials in the left menu, then expand the generated service credential or create a new one.
4. Copy apikey and url, then paste them to the following Leon's file: server/src/config/voice/watson-stt.json.

Watson TTS

1. Click here to create a Text to Speech service.
2. Click on Create (or Sign up to Create if you do not have an account yet).
3. Click on Service credentials in the left menu, then expand the generated service credential or create a new one.
4. Copy API Key and URL, then paste them to the following Leon's file: server/src/config/voice/watson-tts.json.

Tip

If you are using a version below 1.0.0-beta.4, from the step 3. do: Click on Manage in the left menu, then on Show Credentials; copy API Key and URL, then paste them to the respected Leon's files: server/src/config/voice/watson-stt.json and server/src/config/voice/watson-tts.json.

Synchronizer

If a module has this option, once the module has been processed, you can synchronize your content via different methods.

E.g. the YouTube module of the Video Downloader Package allows you to synchronize your downloaded videos on your Google Drive account or on your current device.

Tip

To see if a module has this option, simply check the settings via this file: packages/{PACKAGE NAME}/config/config.json.

In that file, set the enabled key to true to enable the synchronizer for this specific module.

Method	Description
direct	Synchronize content on your current device.
google-drive	Synchronize content on Google Drive.

Direct

"synchronization": {

"enabled": true,

"method": "direct",

"email": ""

}

packages/{PACKAGE NAME}/config/config.json

Google Drive

1. Create or select a project on the GCP (Google Cloud Platform).
2. Enable the Google Drive API.
3. Create a service account key.
4. Download the JSON file and copy its content to the: server/src/config/synchronizer/google-drive.json Leon's file.

"synchronization": {

"enabled": true,

"method": "google-drive",

"email": "{YOUR GOOGLE EMAIL ADDRESS}"

}

packages/{PACKAGE NAME}/config/config.json

An email is sent to this email address once Leon has synchronized your content on your Google Drive.