Building a virtual assistant for Raspberry Pi : the practical guide for constructing a voice-controlled virtual assistant / Tanay Pant.
Build a voice-controlled virtual assistant using speech-to-text engines, text-to-speech engines, and conversation modules. This book shows you how to program the virtual assistant to gather data from the internet (weather data, data from Wikipedia, data mining); play music; and take notes. Each chap...
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Table of Contents:
- At a Glance; Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Introduction to Virtual Assistants; Commercial Virtual Assistants; Raspberry Pi; How a Virtual Assistant Works; Speech-to-Text Engine; Logic Engine; Text-to-Speech Engine; Setting Up Your Development Environment; Python 2.x; Python Package Index (PyPI); Version Control System (Git); PortAudio; PyAudio; Designing Melissa; Learning Methodology; Summary; Chapter 2: Understanding and Building an Application with STT and TTS; Speech-to-Text Engines; Freely Available STTs.
- Installing SpeechRecognitionRecording Audio to a WAV File; Speech Recognition; Google STT; Wit.ai STT; IBM STT; AT & T STT; Melissa's Inception; Text-to-Speech Engine; OS X; Linux; Building the TTS Engine; Repeat What I Say; Integrating STT and TTS in Melissa; Version-Controlling Your Source Code; Obtaining the Code from GitHub; Summary; Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands Dirty: Conversation Module; Logic Engine Design; Making Melissa Responsive; Fixing Limitation 1; Fixing Limitation 2; Extending Functionality; What's the Time, Melissa?; Committing Changes; Summary.
- Chapter 4: Using the Internet to Gather InformationHow's the Weather?; Define Artificial Intelligence!; Read Me Some Business News!; Text-Controlled Virtual Assistant; Selenium and Automation; Time to Sleep, Melissa!; Summary; Chapter 5: Developing a Music Player for Melissa; OS X Music Player; Linux Music Player; Module Workflow; Building the Music Module; Play Party Mix!; Summary; Chapter 6: Developing a Note-Taking Application; Design Workflow; Designing the Database; Inner Workings of the Virtual Assistant; Building the Note-Taking Module; Building a Note-Dictating Module; Exercises.
- Offline Speech-to-Text (STT)Where Do I Use Melissa?; Drones; Humanoid Robots; House-Automation Systems; Burglar-Detection System; Summary; Index.