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Open Voice OS running on Windows with WSL2 and Docker

Limitations

Because Open Voice OS was designed to run on Linux operating system, some limitations exist on Windows.

  • Open Voice OS GUI is not available
  • DBus is not yet supported which prevent the use of MPRIS via the ovos_audio container
  • Some plugins with PHAL will/could be limited to what WSL2 supports

Requirements

Docker

Docker Desktop is required in order to provide the container engine to WSL2. For more information about Docker Desktop, please visit https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop.

Once installed and started, run the following command to ensure that Docker engine is up and running.

docker system info

Docker Desktop doesn't start by default when Windows boots up. You must have Docker Desktop running in Windows before WSL2 can use Docker.

PulseAudio

PulseAudio is available via WSLG, which runs in a separate VM. You must be on a recent version of WSL2 that provides WSLG.

You may need to install pulseaudio in your WSL environment. With Ubuntu, for example:

sudo apt install -y pulseaudio

The ultimate test will be to run a Docker container and waiting for the sounds to be played.

docker run --rm -it -v ~/.config/pulse:/home/pulseaudio/.config/pulse keinos/speaker-test

If successful you should hear test sounds from left and right speakers and see this output:

speaker-test 1.2.2

Playback device is default
Stream parameters are 48000Hz, S16_LE, 2 channels
WAV file(s)
Rate set to 48000Hz (requested 48000Hz)
Buffer size range from 96 to 1048576
Period size range from 32 to 349526
Using max buffer size 1048576
Periods = 4
was set period_size = 262144
was set buffer_size = 1048576
 0 - Front Left
 1 - Front Right
Time per period = 3.278807

How to use these images

Please refer to this section of the documentation.

Thanks

Thanks to @mikejgray and community member Ben for helping 👏👊.

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