Kris Gesling

Discussion: Remove need for connectivity checks

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Discussion started in #2962 about whether network connectivity checks are always needed. If an install is intended to operate fully offline then clearly it doesn't need to be connected. However...

Upgrade PIP to 21.3.1

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## Description Upgrade PIP to latest version. There have been an extensive number of bugfixes, improvements and deprecations. Nothing that I've seen that should really impact us. @forslund I remember...

Add ask_confirm method

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Adds a new method, `ask_confirm()`, an alternative to `ask_yesno` that returns only a Boolean or None. closes #2835 replacing PR #2837 ```python if self.ask_confirm('question'): self.speak("got it") else: self.speak("task failed successfully")...

Register bus handlers requiring loop after loop exists

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## Description AttributeError was being thrown by the Speech service. ``` File "/opt/mycroft/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyee/_base.py", line 116, in emit self._emit_handle_potential_error(event, args[0] if args else None) File "/opt/mycroft/.venv/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pyee/_base.py", line 86, in _emit_handle_potential_error raise...

Add pause and resume capability to TTS playback thread

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## Description This adds pause and resume functionality to the TTS playback thread for use in barge in. From Ken: > Barge-In is not an issue for Precise, however, core...

Use response method for track_info handler

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## Description The `audioservice.track_info` handler was using a custom reply message, which is an older form of replying to a message. This required you to know what the `reply_type` is...

Add current track info handling to Simple Audioservice

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## Description Small addition to the Simple Audioservice to add current track info handling in line with current Audioservice definition. ## How to test With the simple audioservice as your...

Add method to remove any entries from a .voc file from a string.

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## Description The `remove_voc` method complements the existing vocab matching tools. It is useful to clean utterances of common articles or other noise when parsing for specific information. This method...

Prevent critical failure of audio services

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## Description If an audioservice throws an exception when starting playback, the `service_lock` is never released. Playback cannot be initiated again until the Audio Service is restarted. I haven't yet...

Extract existing audioservices, STT and TTS engines for new plugin system

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As we are moving to a new [plugin system for audioservices, STT and TTS engines](https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/pull/2594) we need to create a plugin for each of the services that will no longer...