Liva (linux voice assistant GUI)

linux-voice-assistant-gui - a utility that could mimic Cortana on the linux desktop...

Features:-

Liva provides a basic set of Voice Assistant capabilities including...

• Ability to Record Speech into an Audio file

• Ability to define the Duration of Recording - by editing a config file

• Ability to Convert the Recorded Speech into Text - using the Google Speech to Text API

• Ability to set the Language for the Speech to Text as well as the Text to Speech Engines - by editing the config file

• Once the Speech gets converted to text - it can be copied to the Clipboard (by clicking the Copy button). This text can be pasted into any Application that accepts text inputs (and the entire process can be repeated as many times as required)

• Ability to Recognize a set of Words / Phrases and perform certain Actions Associated with those words / phrases

[brief list of Phrases and Associated Actions...]

• date = reads out the current system date

• time = reads out the current system time

• joke = tells a joke

• news = gives news headlines (as per config)

• weather = gives Weather (as per config)

• play song = plays 'song' on youtube

• info page prog = opens info page for 'prog'

• man page prog = opens man page for 'prog'

• open in terminal prog = opens 'prog' in terminal

• open prog = opens 'prog' (without terminal)

  {Instead of 'Open' - you may say 'launch', 'open', 'run' or 'start'}

• Search Information phrase = Search 'phrase' in Google

  {Instead of 'Search' - you may say 'find' or 'search'}

  {Instead of 'information' - you may say 'info' or 'information'}

• Ask Questions like the ones shown below - and get answers for the same...

  • (A) What is term
  • (B) Where is place
  • (C) Who is person
  • (D) How to action

  Note:- Questions such as Which and Why have not been included - as these questions can sometimes be subjective.

  Answers to the available set of questions is fetched by doing a search on Google or a lookup in Wikipedia.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SETUP...

• Packages that must be Installed on the system:

  • python3 (if not already installed)
  • python3-pip
  • python3-pyaudio
  • python3-portaudio
  • espeak

• pip Packages that must be Installed on the system:

  • pyaudio
  • pywhatkit (requires internet connection)
  • pyttsx3
  • speechrecognition
  • pyjokes
  • python-weather
  • gnewsclient
  • pyqt5
  • datetime
  • requests
  • asyncio
  • python-Levenshtein

• pip Packages that must be Excluded on the system:

  • mouseinfo (if already installed - please Uninstall)

Setup Process...

1/ do a git clone of the project...

  git clone https://github.com/prashlkam/linux-voice-assistant-gui

2/ cd into the project dir...

  cd ./linux-voice-assistant-gui

3/ run the 'setup.sh' shell script...

  ./setup.sh

4/ when prompted, give your sudo password...

5/ when asked if you wish to continue - type 'y' to proceed further...

[selecting 'n' here could result in an improper installation]

6/ shortly thereafter, the screen would clear. Now you can start using Liva.

Note:-

• this setup script covers the following distros...

  • Red Hat's rpm based distros
  • almost all debian based distros
  • Arch based distros

  (if you use any other distro - feel free to edit the 'setup.sh' shell script)

• if you see errors during the setup process - some of the packages may not be installed correctly on your system. In such a case, it's advised that you manually remove the residual files from your system.