Installation
This section describes how to install Dragonfly. The installation procedure of Dragonfly itself is straightforward. Its dependencies, however, differ depending on which speech recognition engine is used.
Prerequisites
To be able to use the dragonfly, you will need the following:
Python – available from the Python dowloads page. Version 2.7 (32-bit) is required if using Natlink.
Win32 extensions for Python (only for Windows users) – available from the pywin32 releases page.
Natlink (only for Dragon users) – latest versions available from SourceForge.
wmctrl, xdotool and xsel programs (only for Linux/X11 users) – usually available from your system’s package manager.
Note on Python 2: Python version 2.7 (32-bit) is required if using the Natlink SR engine, at least for the moment. With the exception of the Kaldi engine, Python 2 support has been retained for the whole library. Other than the fact that this support is currently required for the Natlink engine, this has been done because the library has always supported this version of Python and because retaining said support is, at present, neither difficult nor detrimental to the library’s support for Python version 3.
Note for Linux users: Dragonfly is only fully functional in an X11
session. You may also need to manually set the DISPLAY environment
variable. Input action classes, application contexts and the Window
class will not be functional under Wayland. It is therefore recommended
that the Wayland user switch to X11.
Installation of Dragonfly
Dragonfly is a Python package. It can be installed as dragonfly using pip:
pip install dragonfly2
If you wish to install the latest release candidate for version 1.0.0, please run the following command instead:
pip install dragonfly2==1.0.0-rc2
These versions are more up-to-date and have fewer requirements. The documentation for them is available at Read the Docs (latest).
Dragonfly can also be installed by cloning this repository or downloading it from the releases page and running the following (or similar) command in the project’s root directory:
python setup.py install
If pip fails to install dragonfly or any of its required or extra dependencies, then you may need to upgrade pip with the following command:
pip install --upgrade pip
Installation for specific SR engine back-ends
Each Dragonfly speech recognition engine back-end and its requirements are documented separately:
Installation for optional features
Some features of Dragonfly are optional and have requirements which must be installed separately. Included in this category are the following: