jupyterjones/alexis_speech_assistant

Python speech assist app

Alexis Speech Assistant

Python app that uses speech recognition and text-to-speech This app initially used the Google text-to-speech API, but has been updated to use offline text-to-speech with pyttsx3

Dependencies

pip install speechrecognition
pip install pyttsx3
pip install pyaudio
pip install playsound
pip install PyObjC

pip install PyAudio

(If there is a issue in installing PyAudio use .whl file from this link https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyaudio)

Voice Commands

You can add other commands, but these are the ones that exist

• What is your name?
• What time is it
• Search
• Find Location
• Exit

Apple Mac OS X (Homebrew & PyAudio)

Use Homebrew to install the prerequisite portaudio library, then install PyAudio using pip:

brew install portaudio pip install pyaudio

Notes:

If not already installed, download Homebrew. pip will download the PyAudio source and build it for your version of Python. Homebrew and building PyAudio also require installing the Command Line Tools for Xcode (more information).

https://people.csail.mit.edu/hubert/pyaudio/