Recast.ai - JavaScript Library

Synospis

This module is a JS Client interface to the Recast.AI API. It allows you to make requests to your bots, by speech or by text.

Try out the feature

Library-JavaScript

Installation

npm

npm install --save recastai-lib-browser

import Recast from 'recastai-lib-browser'

bower

bower install recastai-lib-browser

<script src="bower_components/recastai-lib-browser/recastai-lib-browser.js"></script>

CDN

<script src="https://cdn.recast.ai/scripts/recastai-lib-browser.js"></script>

Usage

/*
* the option parameter is optional.
* if you don't specify any language, english will be set as default
*/
var option = {
  language: 'en',/* 'en' or 'fr' */
  debug: true, /*will add console log at the end of some function */
}
var recast = new Recast('YOUR_TOKEN',option)

Specs

This module contains 1 classes, with 4 methods :

• Start recording: allows you to record your voice and will return the response of Recast.AI.
• Stop recording: stop the recording, and tells Recast.AI to process the vocal message send by startRecording().
• Text request: allows you to send a textRequest, it will return the response of Recast.AI.
• You can use all the method of the Recast.AI - SDK Node.js.

Start recording

• startRecording() will ask the permission to use your microphone, will open a webSocket and record your voice for 10 sec max.
• this function return a promise.

recast.startRecording().then(function(res){
  console.log(res)
    /*your code */
}).catch(function(e){
  console.log(e)
})

Stop recording

• Stop recording will send to Recast.AI a formated message to tell the recoding is done.

recast.stopRecording()

Text request

• textRecast() will send your text to Recast.AI and will return a promise with the response of Recast.AI.

recast.textRequest('YOUR_TEXT').then(function(res){
  console.log(res)
    /*your code */
}).catch(function(e){
  console.log(e)
})

Example with a SDK NodeJS method

• You can find more examples here: README.

var text = 'Hello'

recast.textRequest(text).then(function(res){

  var intent = res.intent()

  if (intent === 'greetings') {
    console.log(res)
    /*your code */
  }
}).catch(function(e){
  console.log(e)
})

• you can find all the code on this part of the REPO with a typical html file and a webpack config to get started.

More

You can view the whole API reference at man.recast.ai.

Author

Henri Floren, [email protected]

You can follow us on Twitter at @recastai for updates and releases.

License

Copyright (c) [2016] Recast.AI

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.