doctorfuchs/oa-core

Open Assistant Core

Open Assistant

Open source voice assistant development. Make your own minds!

Open Assistant is a private open source personal assistant prototype able to complete operating system tasks using vocal commands.

Installation

Windows

Click & Run

• Download http://openassistant.org/download/oa_0.21_windows.zip
• Unzip package
• Launch oa.exe in "Open Assistant" folder

Source

• Install common list of Python packages
• Install Windows-specific dependencies: pip install pywin32
• Install Python dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt

macOS

• Install brew if you have not already.
• Install pocketsphinx dependencies: brew install swig openal-soft
• Link the openal-soft libraries to the include path: ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/openal-soft/1.20.1/include/AL/* /usr/local/include
• Install Python dependencies: pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Ubuntu Linux

• Install system requirements sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-dev python3-pip build-essential swig git libpulse-dev espeak libasound2-dev
• Install Python dependencies: pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Arch Linux

• Install system requirements sudo pacman -S swig espeak
• Install Python dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt

Using Open Assistant

• Download Open Assistant
• Run Open Assistant from within the unzipped directory: python -m oa or python3 -m oa
• Make sure your microphone is working and levels are set properly.
• Say "Boot Mind!" as a listening test. If you hear R2D2, boot mind is listening.
• Say "Open Assistant!" to launch root mind. Say "Root Mind!" to see if you can get the reply, "Hello World!"
• Say "List commands!" to get a list of available voice commands.
• Add your own!