Voicepedia

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Voicepedia is an open source web application written in Go in the server-side and HTML5 technologies in the client side. You can use your voice to tell which Wikipedia entry to search for. No need to use your eyse, the entry's content will be reading to you!

Voicepedia is also a social app, when you can record and hear voices by people around the world!

Voicepedia can run on desktop...

desktop

Or on mobile phone...

mobile

with voice commands and fancy gestures...

Draw R to listen recent articles read by real people
Draw S to start searching
Draw ? to listen how to use Voicepedia

gesture

or if you want to read this wikipedia and contribute, just say "Record".

record

How to install

Open source library used

Database

Start RethinkDB and Redis
Download lastest wikipedia database at Wikipedia database dump
Uncompress using bzip2 (44GB uncompressed)
Clean database using Wikipedia extractor (about 5 - 6 hours)
Import database using scripts/import.go (about 4 hours)
Index database using scripts/index.go (about 4.5 hours)

Running

go get github.com/tamnd/voicewiki
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/tamnd/voicewiki
go build && ./voicewiki

What includes in the source code?

A index/search engine write from scratch (scripts/index.go, model/article/search.go)
A light HTTP middleware (middleware)
A gesture engine (/public/public/js/gesture.js, /public/public/js/pad.js)

And much more...