PYTHON VIRTUAL ASSISTANT

This virtual assistant is designed with simplicity in mind, which performs basic functionalities that assist users in their daily lives

• CONTINUING GOAL: OPTIMIZE THE SPEED OF THE BOT

List of utilities

Please refer to file utilities.txt

HIGHLIGHTED UTILITIES

• Send email: Sending email, including Subject line, to a person in the contact list
• Add email contact: Add a new email contact to the contact list
• Play music: Playing music from Youtube
• Get weather: Get current weather data for a location (if specified) or the user's location (based on user's public IP address)
• Wiki search: Give a short summary of a person or a thing

⭐ UPGRADES ⭐

• User can now add new email contact when sending an email if the recipient is not in the contact list
• All manual inputs from client have now been transformed to text-to-speech inputs

Setup

• Clone this repo
• Create a virtual environment: python3 -m venv <path_to_virtual_env> (i.e python3 -m venv myenv/.)
• Download the required packages: pip install -r requirements.txt
  Make sure to have SpeechRecognition, PyAudio and pyttsx3 installed for the skeleton to function
  Any packages not listed in requirements.txt are python built-in packages

To get Weather Data

• Create an account at openweathermap.org
• Create an API key and replace configs["WEATHER_API_KEY"] with your own

Important Notes

• Some of the imports are explicitly imported to suppress warnings and errors. These do not affect the flow of the virtual assistant as some imports are device-dependant.