Voice Assistant

Table of Contents:

I. Introduction

II. Requirements

III. Dependencies

IV. Features

V. Install

VII. Contributing

VII. License

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I. Introduction

Voice Assistant is a "voice-controlled personal assistant" designed for the Linux platform It is a tool that provides a platform to execute and control some basic tasks on the Linux platform, entirely through voice input.

Source code used in the software can be obtained with this URL: https://github.com/rahulkant/voice-assistant

II. Requirements

These following requirements need to be fulfilled if you want to use this package the package

Operating System : Ubuntu 14.04

Hardware : Microphone or Headphones (for voice input), Speaker(optional)

Python : Version 2.7 or higher

Applications : The tool is developed for certain application that come along as Default in Ubuntu. List of such applications required are:

      1. Rhythmbox - music player (along with required GStreamer Plugins)

      2. Videos - default video player for Ubuntu

      3. Document Viewer - Default pdf viewer

      4. Firefox - Mozilla firefox ( Chrome is not supported yet)

      Other applications will be added as support for them would be made available

III. Dependencies

All dependencies are listed in the DEPENDENCIES file.

IV. Features

The user can access and control multiple applications and features simply through voice input. The tool can take input through microphone in natural language and understand it (only upto certain extent) to perform the expected function. The features include:

1. Control Media player and navigate through the Music/Movie Library using voice commands such as play and pause a song, change the volume, stop song, next and previous song, shuffle, fast forward, rewind, increase/decrease speed.
2. Control basic functions of the Web Browser such as access tabs, close browser, scroll and search page, zoom, bookmark, back and forward, search a keyword using default search engine.
3. Navigate the default File Browser, and perform basic file management operations such as copy and move file, switching directories, create new directory, open directory, open file, delete files and directories, search current directory.
4. Access functionalities that are generally executable only through the terminal such as update system, etc.

A detailed list of specific functionalities shall be included soon after implementation.

##V. Install To install the package, run "python setup.py install"

in the package directory. Add sudo before the command if needed. The file setup.py is yet to be added.

VI. Contributing

Please see Authors.txt for the list of Contributors

VII. License

This application shall be released under GNU GPL v3.