Source code for dragonfly.actions.action_mimic

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"""
Mimic action
============================================================================


The :class:`Mimic` action mimics a single recognition.  This is useful for
repeating a single prerecorded or predefined voice-command.

This class could for example be used to open a new Windows Explorer window::

    action = Mimic("open", "windows", "explorer")
    action.execute()


A more in-depth example is given below in the class reference.


Mimic quirks
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Some SR engine back-ends have confusing :meth:`engine.mimic` method
behavior.  See the engine-specific mimic method documentation in sections
under :ref:`RefEngines` for more information.


Class reference
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"""

from six                           import string_types

from dragonfly.actions.action_base import ActionBase, ActionError
from dragonfly.engines             import get_engine


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[docs] class Mimic(ActionBase): """ Mimic recognition action. The constructor arguments are the words which will be mimicked. These should be passed as a variable argument list. For example:: action = Mimic("hello", "world", r"!\\exclamation-mark") action.execute() If an error occurs during mimicking the given recognition, then an *ActionError* is raised. A common error is that the engine does not know the given words and can therefore not recognize them. For example, the following attempts to mimic recognition of *one single word* including a space and an exclamation-mark; this will almost certainly fail:: Mimic("hello world!").execute() # Will raise ActionError. The constructor accepts the optional *extra* keyword argument, and uses this to retrieve dynamic data from the extras associated with the recognition. For example, this can be used as follows to implement dynamic mimicking:: class ExampleRule(MappingRule): mapping = { "mimic recognition <text> [<n> times]": Mimic(extra="text") * Repeat(extra="n"), } extras = [ IntegerRef("n", 1, 10), Dictation("text"), ] defaults = { "n": 1, } The example above will allow the user to speak **"mimic recognition hello world! 3 times"**, which would result in the exact same output as if the user had spoken **"hello world!"** three times in a row. """ def __init__(self, *words, **kwargs): ActionBase.__init__(self) self._words = tuple(words) if "extra" in kwargs: self._extra = kwargs.pop("extra") else: self._extra = None # Set pretty printing string used by __str__ and __unicode__. self._str = u", ".join(repr(w) for w in self._words) # Make sure that all keyword arguments have been consumed. if kwargs: raise ActionError("Invalid arguments: %r" % ", ".join(list(kwargs.keys()))) def _execute(self, data=None): engine = get_engine() words = self._words # If an extra was given, retrieve the associated value from # the *data* dict and append it to the static words. if self._extra: try: extra = data[self._extra] except KeyError: raise ActionError("No extra data available for extra %r" % self._extra) # Append the extra data to the static words depending on # the type of the extra data object. if isinstance(extra, engine.DictationContainer): words += tuple(extra.words) elif isinstance(extra, (tuple, list)): words += tuple(extra) elif isinstance(extra, string_types): words += (extra,) else: raise ActionError("Invalid extra data type: %r" % extra) # Mimic the series of words. self._log.debug("Mimicking recognition: %r", words) try: engine.disable_recognition_observers() engine.mimic(words) engine.enable_recognition_observers() except Exception as e: raise ActionError("Mimicking failed: %s" % e)