Virtual-assistant

A simple virtual assistant written in python

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Setup:

Cloning the repo:

git clone https://github.com/spignelon/virtual-assistant.git
cd virtual-assistant

Setting up the environment:

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage:

python main.py

You can say:

• "what is your name"
• "what time is it" to know the current time
• "search" and then after it say whatever you want to google
• "youtube" to search anything on youtube
• "wikipedia" to show results from wikipedia
• "find location" and then the location you want it to show you
• "toss a coin" to flip a coin for head and tail
• "tell a joke" for one liner jokes
• "shutdown" it will confirm once and shutdown the system
• "brightness" to increase/decrease brightness of your desktop
• "volume" to inc/dec current volume
• "exit" to exit

Libraries/Modules used for this project

• os - operating system module - to establish the interaction between the user and the operating system
• random - used to generate random numbers
• time - used to represent time in code, such as objects, numbers, and strings. It also provides functionality other than representing time, like waiting during code execution
• webbrowser - for google search
• gtts import gTTS - google text to speech...to convert the text to speech
• playsound - to play audio files
• pyjokes - Provides one line jokes
• speech_recognition - for speech to text
• wikipedia - allows us to search a query supplied as an argument using the search() method
• screen_brightness_control - to control screen brightness
• alsaaudio - This package contains wrappers for accessing the ALSA API from Python. It is fairly complete for PCM devices and Mixer access.