/Seven-Personal-Assistant

Personal virtual assistant using Python

Primary LanguagePython

Seven-Personal-Assistant

Overview:

  • Building a personal assistant by Python programming languague.
  • Using APIs for multiple functions such as reporting weather or news, ects...
  • More features are comming up in the future

What SEVEN can do:

  • Open desktop applications
  • Search on Wikipedia and Google
  • Play a video on Youtube
  • Send an email
  • Report news and weather
  • Report Covid-19 global case number
  • Give a joke
  • Report trending movies

Tools:

  • Code editor: Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Setup:

  • Environment:

    • Use virtualenv library
    • Install: pip install virtualenv
    • Create a new environment: virtualenv env_name
    • Activate & Deactivate: env_name/Scripts/activate(deactivate)

  • Text to speech:

    • Utilize pyttsx3 library
    • Install: pip install pyttx3

  • Speech recognition:

    • SpeechRecognition library
    • Install: pip install SpeechRecognition

  • Browser interact:

    • pywhatkit library
    • Install: pip install pywhatkit

  • HTTP request:

    • requests library
    • Install: pip install requests

  • Wikipdia:

    • Use wikipedia library
    • Install: pip install wikipedia

Use a .env file in the project

  • What?????
    • A file containing all the environment values required by your application
  • Why????
    • Avoid messing up or polluting the global environment namespace
    • Be able to use environment variable for local developement
  • Use:
    • To use the .env file, python-decouple is needed
    • Install pip install python-decouple