dipayandutta / desktopassistant

Desktop assistant that uses speech recognition and gTTS to execute commands and talk back to the user.

Desktop Assistant

Siri like desktop assistant written in Python which uses google's speech-to-text library to process voice input.

• Install the dependencies in a virtual environment (using conda or virtualenv) to avoid any issues. Use either pip2 or pip3 for python2 and python3 respectively.

If you are a linux user install the say command using

sudo apt-get install gnustep-gui-runtime

pip2 install -r requirements.txt
pip3 install -r requirements.txt

• Usage

python desktopAssistant.py

Supported commands :

• Open reddit subreddit : Opens the subreddit in default browser.
• Open website xyz.com : self-explanatory
• Send email/email : Follow up questions such as recipient name, content will be asked in order.
• Tell a joke/another joke : Says a random dad joke.
• Current weather in {cityname} : Tells you the current condition and temperture
• weather forecast in {cityname} : Tells you the condition, highest and lowest temperture of the next two days
• What's up