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Tools

S.T.A.R.K. is a framework, but several of its pieces work entirely on their own. No CommandsManager, no pattern matching, nothing else from the framework required. This page indexes what you can use solo, grouped by what they actually are.

Phonetic Matching (Core S.T.A.R.K. Features)

These aren't side utilities bolted on for convenience. Cross-language phonetic matching is core to how S.T.A.R.K. understands misspoken, misspelled, or transliterated input, and it's built on a modular design, so the pieces happen to work standalone too:

  • Phonetic Dictionary: cross-language name and keyword lookup. Find "Linkin Park" whether it's typed, misspelled, or transliterated from Cyrillic.
  • Corrections: widens command patterns to accept phonetic and misspelled variants automatically, based on dictionary lookups.

Raw Standalone Tools

The lower-level building blocks the features above are built on. S.T.A.R.K. uses them internally, and they're just as useful pulled out on their own:

  • Raw Phonetic Tools: IPA transcription and simplephone conversion, the layer the dictionary and corrections build on.
  • Levenshtein: a from-scratch, Cython-compiled fuzzy string and substring matcher, with weighted proximity graphs and in-sentence search.
  • Sliding Window Parser: extract parameters from free text using a parser function, even when it only matches part of the input.

Speech (STT/TTS)

Recognition and synthesis are separate, swappable interfaces. Use either without touching commands at all:

  • Speech Recognition (STT): the SpeechRecognizer protocol, ready offline implementations (Vosk), and how to add your own backend.
  • Speech Synthesis (TTS): the SpeechSynthesizer protocol, ready implementations (Silero, Google Cloud), and how to add your own backend.

Building something with one of these outside of S.T.A.R.K. entirely? Tell us in Discussions, it's exactly the kind of thing worth knowing about, and we need all the feedback we can get to make S.T.A.R.K. better.