jim-schwoebel/nala

🦁 Nala is an agile open-source voice assistant framework (20+ actions).

Hi, I'm Jim 👋

Currently, I am an Head of Engineering at NewAtlantis Labs, a team dedicated to merging omics-led science, AI, and innovative financial models to support Marine Protected Areas (MPAs).

recent demos

• Online Migration for Datastores - Feature Release - migrate your databases seamlessly to DigitalOcean (600k+ customer reach).
• Voiceome - our research paper that focuses on the largest clinical study in the world to collect voice data labeled with health information (N>6,000 participants, 48 utterances, 80+ health labels).
• Vibe - a framework for Alzheimer's disease research (1st place at the CNT hackathon / UW Center for Neurotechnology).
• Voicebook - a book to get you started programming voice computing applications in Python (10 chapters and 200+ scripts).
• SurveyLex - create a distribute a voice survey in <1 minute (1000+ users).
• Allie ML framework - an agile ML framework for machine learning research (90+ stars).
• Brainmeet.org - a social network for brain science (150+ users).
• Every Second Counts - a music album I composed with my friend Berk for our band, the Pragmatists (16 songs).
• Science - a poem about conducting science independently from academia (200+ views).
• Journeys in Life - a memory illustration album in honor of my brother, Tim (34+ illustrations, 1 poem).
• Nala - a framework to easily build and scale voice assistants (25+ stars).

... more demos can be found here

passions I code around

• climate change activism - Currently, I am an Head of Engineering at NewAtlantis Labs, a team dedicated to merging omics-led science, AI, and innovative financial models to support Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). I also helped to build the website for ClimateVoice, an advocacy organization to go #AllinonClimate and built a few climate GitHub applications through Protea.earth, a working group for climate change.
• databases - Our team @ DigitalOcean built the managed databases product (DBaaS) to make it easy to set up and scale SQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis databases (10+ team members).
• digital health - I'm a strong believer that software can eat healthcare a bit more to improve health outcomes and reduce healthcare costs; it's our responsibility to make the healthcare transition toward web 3.0 move faster.
• diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) - I strongly believe software can help improve accessibility and lessen biases, so if I can contribute to any DEI-related projects you are working on please let me know.
• life hacking - I generally am looking for hacks to be more productive, so you may find me releasing some code to automate my daily routine and/or send and respond to emails.
• machine learning - I built Allie, an agile ML framework (90+ stars) - I'm always looking to open source useful machine learning models and teach others machine learning who want to learn.
• new media formats - I'm fascinated about creating new forms of art and media formats through software -- for example, computer generated poetry.
• quantum computing - I co-founded QuForce.org, a community for quantum computing enthusiasts.
• stock trading - I like to do automated stock trading or portfolio analysis, so I may release some projects in the open source community soon.
• voice computing - I wrote a book in voice computing and I've mentored 40+ fellows in voice computing through our innnovation fellows program.
• web 3.0 - As a full-stack developer, I'm particularly excited about helping to build Web 3.0 at the intersection of voice computing, blockchain, NFTs, machine learning, gamification, virtual reality, and quantum computing.

research

To keep up with my ongoing research activities, check out my Google Scholar page here.

want to collaborate?

Schedule a time to chat @ https://jim.schwoebel.me

nala's Issues

add randomness

Perhaps add some randomness - like a 5% chance to produce a vocalization randomly to prompt a user on a given hour, or play back a user query.

Generate a list of question.

Stochastic modeling.

-Jim

Add in Jasper libraries

Google Calendar -- The Google Calendar module lets you check your Google calendar today or tomorrow for events, and it lets you add an event to your calendar.

Twitter -- The Twitter module lets you tweet, check whats trending and check for any twitter notifications which include: Direct messages, retweets or mentions.

Evernote -- The Evernote module lets you store notes for you in your Evernote account.

WolframAlpha -- The WolframAlpha module lets you ask question to WolframAlpha search engine.

Status -- The Status module outputs system status information upon request.

Movies -- The Movies module is used to retrieve movie information.

Define -- The Define module is used to get definitions of words.

Wiki -- The Wiki module is used to get a Wikipedia summary of a word or phrase.

Domoticz -- The Domoticz home automation module is used to issue commands to a Domoticz server using the JSON API.

Find My iPhone -- The Find My iPhone module is used to force your phone to ring using the apple service "find my iphone"

Yelp -- The yelp module is used to find a good restaurant in a given area. The module can also answer various questions about the restaurant.

Stocks -- The stock module is used to get live stock quotes.

OpenWeatherMap -- Open Weather Map API to get weather forecast.

Currency Exchage Rate Calculator -- Get Xchange Rate for two Currencies.

MQTT -- An MQTT client which allows you to control other MQTT enabled devices in your home.

Reboot -- Reboot the Raspbery PI.

Selfie -- Take a webcam photo and upload it to a predefined email.

Shutdown -- Shutdown the Raspberry PI.

Speedtest -- Run a Speedtest of your network and report back the results.

WavPlay -- Play a random wav file from a predefined directory.

installing pocketsphinx

bambocher/pocketsphinx-python#28

^^ can use this to install pocketsphinx if you get an error.

weather bug

Getting the weather results in a bug. Weather.py

Need to find a better way to get the weather 👍

Pyttsx3 does not work

ib/python3.7/importlib/init.py", line 127, in import_module
return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
File "", line 1006, in _gcd_import
File "", line 983, in _find_and_load
File "", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 677, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 728, in exec_module
File "", line 219, in _call_with_frames_removed
File "/usr/local/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyttsx3/drivers/nsss.py", line 2, in
from Foundation import *
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'Foundation'