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+Kaylee
+======
+
+Kaylee is a somewhat fancy speech recognizer that will run commands and
+perform other functions when a user speaks loosely preset sentences. It
+is based on `Blather <https://gitlab.com/jezra/blather>`__ by
+`Jezra <http://www.jezra.net/>`__, but adds a lot of features that go
+beyond the original purpose of Blather.
+
+Requirements
+------------
+
+1. Python 3 (tested with 3.5, may work with older versions)
+2. pocketsphinx 5prealpha
+3. gstreamer-1.0 (and what ever plugin has pocketsphinx support)
+4. gstreamer-1.0 base plugins (required for ALSA)
+5. python-gobject (required for GStreamer and the GTK-based UI)
+6. python-requests (required for automatic language updating)
+
+**Note:** it may also be required to install
+``pocketsphinx-hmm-en-hub4wsj``
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+1. Copy options.json.tmp to ~/.config/kaylee/options.json and fill the
+   "commands" section of the file with sentences to speak and commands
+   to run.
+2. Run kaylee.py. This will generate
+   ~/.local/share/kaylee/sentences.corpus based on sentences in the
+   "commands" section of options.json, then use the `Sphinx Knowledge
+   Base Tool <http://www.speech.cs.cmu.edu/tools/lmtool.html>`__ to
+   create and save a new language model and dictionary.
+
+   -  For GTK UI, run kaylee.py -i g
+   -  To start a UI in 'continuous' listen mode, use the -c flag
+   -  To use a microphone other than the system default, use the -m flag
+
+3. Start talking!
+
+**Note:** default values for command-line arguments may be specified in
+the options.json file.
+
+Examples
+~~~~~~~~
+
+-  To run Kaylee with the GTK UI, starting in continuous listen mode:
+   ``./kaylee.py -i g -c``
+
+-  To run Kaylee with no UI and using a USB microphone recognized as
+   device 2: ``./kaylee.py -m 2``
+
+-  To have Kaylee pass each word of the matched sentence as a separate
+   argument to the executed command: ``./kaylee.py -p``
+
+-  To run a command when a valid sentence has been detected:
+   ``./kaylee.py --valid-sentence-command=/path/to/command``
+
+-  To run a command when a invalid sentence has been detected:
+   ``./kaylee.py --invalid-sentence-command=/path/to/command``
+
+Finding the Device Number of a USB microphone
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+There are a few ways to find the device number of a USB microphone.
+
+-  ``cat /proc/asound/cards``
+-  ``arecord -l``