IDKYamHere / J.A.R.V.I.S

A personal assistant with simple, rudimentary AI

Voice Assistant

Originally Created and Tested with Python 2.7 (Linux)

This repository is an upgrade of the project from Python 2.7 to Python 3.6 (Works on both Windows and Linux)

An attempt to make a very simple, Personal Assistant that understands speech as well as text input and is capable of performing tasks other than conversing. This project is based on AIML 1.0 and uses pyaiml for using the AIML interpreter in python. AIML, is based on pattern matching and this project does not implement any sort of machine learning or language processing. All conversation is only for the hardcoded patterns, which are quite few. Can be easily extended to add AIML scripts of ALICE and other existing AIs.

• Tasks that the Bot can perform :

  • Tell the time
  • Plays any song, first search result in youtube
  • Gives a brief system status.
  • Suggests Googling for all unrecognized interrogative questions
  • Changes Wallpaper.
  • Searches internet.
  • Launches Programs.

Requirements:

Make sure you install these packages before moving forward to other python libraries-

You can run pip install -r requirements.txt to install them all.

If this returns any errors you can install the libraries by running the following command/s :

sudo apt install libasound-dev portaudio19-dev libportaudio2 libportaudiocpp0 ffmpeg libav-tools

OR

python -m pip install libasound-dev portaudio19-dev libportaudio2 libportaudiocpp0 ffmpeg libav-tools

Individual packages listed as follows-

• AIML (For Pattern Recognition)

  pip install aiml

• Speech Recognition

  pip install SpeechRecognition

• PyAudio is required for microphone input

  pip install pyaudio

• alsaaudio: (For Volume Control, Linux only)

  pip install pyalsaaudio

  This command fails to execute in most cases, because it needs Visual C++ 9.0 (it is for Python 2.7)

  You can install Visual C++ 9.0 from the link below :

  https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=44266

• ttsx: (Offline Text to Speech Service)

  pip install pyttsx

• Optional for Google Text to Speech :

  • gTTS: (Google Text to Speech service)

    pip install gTTS

  • PyGame: (For audio playback with gTTS)

    pip install pygame

• argparse (For parsing arguments)

  pip install argparse

Running the project:

Clone this repository. Change directories to go to that directory. Run the script "script.py" from the directory containing it. Run script as:

python script.py : for text mode (default) of input

python script.py --voice : for voice mode of input

python script.py --voice --gtts : for voice mode of input, with Google Text to Speech enabled

Voice mode may give a series of warnings for numerous reasons, but still might fuction properly.

Contribution:

A lot can be done with this project. Core AI chatbot like functionality can be added. More python scripts can be associated. Pull requests for any such changes are accepted. Feel free to fork this project and make your own changes too.