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Updated by Daniel Curtis about 9 years ago

This is a guide for installing the intelligent personal assistant Sirius on Ubuntu 14.04 minimal.  

 h2. Prepare the environment 

 * Make sure the system is up to date: 
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 sudo -s 
 apt-get update && apt-get upgrade 
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 * Install git, wget, and unzip: 
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 apt-get install git wget unzip 
 </pre> 

 h2. Install the Sirius Application 

 * Clone sirius from github: 
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 git clone https://github.com/jhauswald/sirius.git 
 cd sirius/sirius-application 
 tar xzf question-answer.tar.gz 
 </pre> 

 * Add additional repositories for ffmpeg 
 <pre> 
 add-apt-repository ppa:kirillshkrogalev/ffmpeg-next 
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 * Enable multiverse sources for libfaac-dev 
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 apt-add-repository multiverse 
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 * Update sources and install basic dependencies 
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 apt-get update 
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 apt-get install git zip unzip subversion sox default-jdk ant automake autoconf libtool bison libboost-all-dev ffmpeg swig python-pip curl 
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 * Install opencv dependencies 
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 apt-get install build-essential checkinstall git cmake libfaac-dev libjack-jackd2-dev libmp3lame-dev libopencore-amrnb-dev libopencore-amrwb-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libva-dev libvdpau-dev libvorbis-dev libx11-dev libxfixes-dev libxvidcore-dev texi2html yasm zlib1g-dev 
 </pre> 

 * Install tessaract text recognition 
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 apt-get install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng libtesseract-dev libleptonica-dev 
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 * Install ATLAS library for Kaldi 
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 apt-get install libatlas-dev libatlas-base-dev 
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 * Install protobuf for image-matching 
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 apt-get install libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler 
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 * Install dependencies for the web application 
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 pip install wtforms Flask requests pickledb 
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 h3. Install opencv 

 * Clone opencv from github  
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 git clone https://github.com/Itseez/opencv.git opencv-2.4.9 
 cd opencv-2.4.9 
 git checkout 2.4.9 
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 * Build and install opencv 
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 mkdir build 
 cd build 
 cmake .. 
 make -j4 
 make -j4 install 
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 * Prepare kaldi 
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 cd ~/sirius/sirius-application/speech-recognition/kaldi 
 ./prepare.sh 
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 h2. Running Sirius 

 * Extract the Wikipedia database (after untaring and building question-answer): 
 <pre> 
 cd ~/sirius 
 wget http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~jahausw/download/wiki_indri_index.tar.gz 
 tar xzvf wiki_indri_index.tar.gz -C question-answer/ 
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 * In run-scripts/, open the QA server: 
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 ./start-qa-server.sh 
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 * In a separate terminal, test QA using: 
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 ./sirius-qa-test.sh "what is the speed of light" 
 </pre> 

 h2. Resources 

 * http://sirius.clarity-lab.org/sirius/ 
 * https://github.com/jhauswald/sirius

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