Create-a-Virtual-Assistant-with-Python

Build an Artificial Assistant

Python Download

https://www.python.org/downloads/

Pycharm Download

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

The packages link used to build it

https://pypi.org/project/SpeechRecognition/ https://pypi.org/project/pyttsx3/ https://pypi.org/project/PyAudio/ https://pypi.org/project/pywhatkit/ https://pypi.org/project/wikipedia/ https://pypi.org/project/pyjokes/

Installation

For windows users

(run those in command prompt/cmt/terminal) For the robot to listen to our voice/speech pip install speechRecognition

To speak out, or text to speech pip install pyttsx3

For advance control on browser pip install pywhatkit

To get wikipedia data pip install wikipedia

To get funny jokes pip install pyjokes

For linux users

Learn all the above commands on terminal. Make sure to use pip3, because in linux pip refers for python2 and pip3 refers to python3. Install these too - pip3 install pyAudio

In case any error pops up install this - pip3 install portAudio

For mac (arm) users

The latest version of MacOS (Ventura) has few issues about pyttsx3 and pyAudio. In order to run this program on Mac successfully, you might need to execute these following commands: To fix pyttsx3 in Ventura:

python -c 'import inspect; from pyttsx3.drivers.nsss import NSSpeechDriver; print(inspect.getsourcefile(NSSpeechDriver))'

It should prints something like this:

/Users/myuser/virtualenvs/myvenv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/pyttsx3/drivers/nsss.py

Use your text editor to find & remove attr['VoiceAge']. This should do the trick.

Move on to pyAudio part. Manually install portaudio first:

git clone https://github.com/PortAudio/portaudio.git
cd portaudio
./configure && make
sudo make install
sudo cp include/pa_mac_core.h /usr/local/include

Then

pip install pyAudio

Should works fine.