TwitterX

A command line utility that can be used to tweet an input from microphone. You'll never have to type again.!!!

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Requirements

(As of now, the instruction set added is only for Ubuntu 14.04 and higher)

To use all of the functionality of the library, you should have:

Python 2.6, 2.7, or 3.3+ (required)
PyAudio 0.2.11+ (required only if you need to use microphone input, Microphone)
PocketSphinx (required only if you need to use the Sphinx recognizer, recognizer_instance.recognize_sphinx)
Google API Client Library for Python (required only if you need to use the Google Cloud Speech API, recognizer_instance.recognize_google_cloud)
FLAC encoder (required only if the system is not x86-based Windows/Linux/OS X)

A hassle free guide to quick install from scratch on Python 2.7.6

Installing pip

sudo apt-get install python-dev
sudo apt-get install python-setuptools
easy_install pip

Installing PyAudio latest Version

To correctly upgrade/install PyAudio, download and extract the 0.2.11 version from here http://www.portaudio.com/download.html and run the following set of commands from inside the portaudio directory

./configure && make
sudo make install
sudo pip install pyaudio --upgrade

Installing Speech Recognition Module and setting up google API

pip install SpeechRecognition
sudo pip install google-api-python-client

Note-Google API has some limit on number of inputs per day. To install other servers when google API is unavailable, refer to https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition

Installing Twitter API for python

sudo pip install twython

Installing ALSA libraries

sudo apt-get install libasound-dev

Twitter Setup

You need a valid twitter account to tweet and need to implement the following steps from your account.

 1) Go to https://apps.twitter.com
 2) Create a new app and generate your Consumer Key, Consumer Secret, Access token and Access token secret and replace these values under TwitterBot/letsTweet.py
 3) Save the changes.

Note-Tweets cannot be duplicated.

For language changes and other settings in speech to text conversions, view https://github.com/Uberi/speech_recognition/blob/master/reference/library-reference.rst

Finally, execute the newTweet.py under MyTwitterBot/TwitterBot using command "python newTweet.py".

P.S. Remember to say 'exit' if you want to quit without tweeting