omonimus1 / personal_assistant

🎙️ A vocal assistant that performs other tasks than simply talk, using Text-to-Speech and Speech-To-text.

personal_assistant

1. What you can find in this repository
2. Functionalities
3. How to run it
4. How to contribute
5. Connect with me

What you can find in this repository

Here you can find a personal assistant that I have created to learn more about Text-To-Speech and Spee-to-Text techinques and practice with Python.

Functionalities

Sophia (the virtual assistant), is able to:

• Search something su wikipedia for you
• Provide you the today's date
• Turn off your device
• Reboot your device
• Provide you information about the percentage of the battery and its state (plugged or not plugged)

How to run it

# Activate the virtual environment 
source venv/bin/activate

# go in the source dirctory
cd src/

# Run the assistant
python assistant.py

# try to say 'Hello assistant'
# OR 'How are you' / 'What date is today'
# OR 'reboot my computer' / 'turn off my computer' etc...

System requirements

• Python interpreter
• pyttsx3 pip install pyttsx3
• libespeak1 sudo apt-get install libespeack1
• SpeechRecognition pip install SpeechRecognition
• PyAudio pip install PyAudio
• psutil wget https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -O - | python
• mps-youtube pip install --upgrade youtube-dl
• Python binding - vlc https://wiki.videolan.org/Python_bindings/

Problems with PyAudio?

sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev python-pyaudio

How to contribute

1. Fork the repository
2. Do the desired changes (add/delete/modify)
3. Make a pull request

When to contribute

1. If you want to suggest a new feature or update

Mind that

Constructive criticisms or code reviews of any kind are very much welcome.

If you have any questions about the solutions you can find here, feel free to contact me at: [email protected]

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personal_assistant's Issues

Computer alimentation system

Futures
Create a functionality that allows me to:

• Reboot the computer
• Turn off the computer

References

OS python module
Turn off computer

Tell me a joke

Feature details

The assistant must be to tell me a random joke from a finite set of jokes stored

BE-2 Google calendar integration

I need to connect my personal assistant to my Google calendar
Describe the solution you'd like

• It is necessary to use Google calendar API
  Calendar API Integration

Additional context
Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.
As a software developer, I need to know all my events and meetings scheduled during my working week.

BE-3 : Get current Date

Describe the solution you'd like
The assistant must be able to tell me what day it is. Giving this information with the following format: Ex : Today is the 27th of March

Search a query on Wikipedia

Feature Details

The system must be able to search a query online and provide useful information about my search

Battery alert

Set alert if the battery is low

Set battery alert at a specific battery percentage with a vocal message.
Extra info: source 1
Extra info: source 2

Provide time and date

The application must be able to provide information about the current date and time.
For modularity reason, every function about the date/time must return single information, implementing

• getTime
• get day of the month
• get month of the year
• get year

Translation from english to italian

Feature Details

Add .gitiignore

[BUG] If the user does not say it's name the program crash

Describe the bug
There will be a crash if the user does not say its name when the program starts

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Run assistant.py
2. Don't say anything when the program asks for your name
3. Wait until the time will run out

*Expected behavior
It should ask again for the name until the assistant does not get at least a word

BE-1 : Check if the username is already stored in our system

Problem
Actually, the application asks always for a username even if it is already stored in the user_data.json

**Solution **
Check if the .json file that contains the username exists. If the file exists, fetch the username value, otherwise, ask the username and store it in user_data.json file to create data persistency.

Search song/video on youtube and play it

Feature details

The personal assistant my be able to reproduce any audio file, as long the audio files as stored at least in a folder called "songs" or "music"

Provide the day of the week having in input the date

If a user will ask for example the day will be the 2nd of March 2020 the Assistant must to be able to provide the day.

• Module reference

BE-4: Add documentation about computer vision