S.O.V.A.

S.O.V.A. is our attempt to automate tasks performed on Microsoft Windows. It would help people not familiar with technology to operate computer systems relatively easily. People alien to this domain face difficulties in getting used to technology, S.O.V.A. here serves as a handy tool. S.O.V.A. performs all common tasks like opening applications, opening and closing files and folders, moving, renaming and organizing files, searching for files, compressing and decompressing files, changing system background, switching tabs, accessing utilities like webcam and microphone, shutting down the system etc. It also has additional features like playing music according to mood, reporting errors, etc.

Getting Started

You need a PC with Microsoft Windows support.

Prerequisites

We need to install following libraries and environment before we begin our task.

python 3.6 or above
selenium
pipwin
winspeech
pyaudio
speech_recognition
wave
BeautifulSoup4

In case getting some error, install the required module.

Healthy Practice : Setting Up a Virtual Environment

In order to avoid collisions during imports and other situations created due to different version requirements for different projects , it is often essential to build / create a virtual environment before trying to install project dependencies. You can easily do this using pip as :

pip install venv

Once venv is installed on your computer you can go forward to create a virtual environment for your project by executing the following command :

python -m venv venv

This command will create a folder named venv containing all the necessary scripts . The same folder is also going to store all our dependencies used in the project. Once the virtual environment is setup , you need to activate it . . .

cd into the venv folder followed by the Scripts folder. And then use the activate command inside the Scripts folder.

python cd venv/Scripts

Once you are inside the Scripts folder , activate the virtual environment :

/venv/Scripts/ > activate

Or deactivate the virtual environment :

/venv/Scripts/ > deactivate

Installing directly from requirements.txt

You can directly install all the required dependencies using the requirements.txt file in the repository. Run the following command :

Note : If you have decided to use a Virtual Environment for your project , make sure you activate it before running the command given below

pip install -r requirements.txt

The requrements.txt file in this repository has been created using the latest python version : python 3.9.0

Although backward compatibility is present in python , in case of any error during installation from the requirements.txt file , you can always install standalone modules separately from the Installing modules individually section given below .

Installing modules individually

1. Python

From here install the latest version of Python for Windows here

2. Selenium

pip install selenium #using pip

Selenium requires a driver to interface with the chosen browser. Firefox, for example, requires geckodriver, which needs to be installed before the below examples can be run. Make sure it’s in your PATH.

Note: Failure to observe this step will give you an error selenium.common.exceptions.WebDriverException: Message: ‘geckodriver’ executable needs to be in PATH.

We will be using Chrome WebDriver , you can download it from here

3. Speech Recoginition

In order to use the SpeechRecognition Library for Windows you need to install an additional dependency called winspeech .

pip install winspeech

Now we can install the SpeechRecognition library

pip install SpeechRecognition

To use its functionality we need PyAudio (for microphone users) . For Windows , you once again need to install a system level dependency called pipwin

pip install pipwin

Now we continue with our installation of PyAudio

pip install pyaudio

4. BeautifulSoup4

Use pip install beautifulsoup4 to install it or

python -m pip install beautifulsoup4 do the same work.

5. wave

Use pip install Wave to install wave.

Features

• Performing Microsoft Windows operations and utilities
• Working with file systems, performing all operations on files and folders, etc.
• Play music according to mood
• Surfing the web using voice commands
• Organizing files and maintaining todo lists

Running the tests

python3 main.py or python main.py

Enjoy !!!

Authors

• Anubhab Swain github
• Ansh Sarkar github