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Dicio is a <i>free and open source</i> <b>voice assistant</b>. It supports many different <b>skills</b> and input/output methods, and it provides both <b>speech</b> and <b>graphical</b> feedback to a question. It uses <a href="https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/">Vosk</a> for <i>speech to text</i>. It has <b>multilanguage</b> support, and is currently available in Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Slovenian and Spanish.

Dicio answers questions about:
<ul>
<li><b>search</b>: looks up information on <b>DuckDuckGo</b> (and in the future more engines) - <i>Search for Dicio</i></li>
<li><b>weather</b>: collects weather information from <b>OpenWeatherMap</b> - <i>What's the weather like?</i></li>
<li><b>lyrics</b>: shows <b>Genius</b> lyrics for songs - <i>What's the song that goes we will we will rock you?</i></li>
<li><b>open</b>: opens an app on your device - <i>Open NewPipe</i></li>
<li><b>calculator</b>: evaluates basic calculations - <i>What is four thousand and two times three minus a million divided by three hundred?</i></li>
<li><b>telephone</b>: view and call contacts - <i>Call Tom</i></li>
<li><b>timer</b>: set, query and cancel timers - <i>Set a timer for eleven minutes</i></li>
<li><b>current time</b>: query current time - <i>What time is it?</i></li>
<li><b>navigation</b>: opens the navigation app at the requested position - <i>Take me to New York, fifteenth avenue</i></li>
</ul>

Dicio can receive input through a text box or through <a href="https://github.com/alphacep/vosk-api/">Vosk</a> <i>speech to text</i>, and can talk using toasts or the Android <i>speech synthesis</i> engine. <b>Interactive graphical output</b> is provided by skills when they answer a question.

Each skill can be enabled, disabled or customized using the related settings screen. Dark, black and dynamic color themes are available.

The user input is interpreted by specific, yet reusable, libraries: <a href="https://github.com/Stypox/dicio-sentences-compiler">dicio-sentences-compiler</a> and <a href="https://github.com/Stypox/dicio-numbers">dicio-numbers</a>.

This app has the <i>NonFreeNet</i> anti-feature because some skills use non-free services to obtain the information requested by the user. You can easily disable unwanted skills or choose alternative services via settings.