Voice Assistant

This project is a simple voice assistant built using Python, integrating various libraries such as pyttsx3, speech_recognition, and others to perform tasks like opening websites, playing music, taking screenshots, searching on YouTube, and more.

Features

• Voice Commands: Responds to various voice commands like opening browsers, searching on YouTube, playing music, and more.
• Text-to-Speech: Uses pyttsx3 to respond with a synthesized voice.
• Speech Recognition: Converts speech into text using Google's speech recognition API.
• System Control: Allows commands to shut down, restart, or lock the system.
• Web Search: Opens web pages like Google and Wikipedia or searches YouTube.
• Music Control: Plays music from a specified directory.
• Screenshot Capture: Takes screenshots and saves them to the disk.

How It Works

• Initialization:

  • The assistant is initialized using the pyttsx3 library for text-to-speech functionality.
  • It uses speech_recognition for converting speech into text.

• Voice Interaction:

  • Upon starting the program: The assistant greets the user based on the time of day. It asks the user what it can do for them.

• Listening for Commands:

  • The assistant continuously listens for voice commands and responds accordingly.

• It can handle various tasks including:

• Searches on YouTube or Google: It performs searches based on the user’s spoken input on YouTube or Google.

  • Opens Websites: It can launch websites like Wikipedia, Google, and others as requested by the user.
  • Plays Music: It plays music from a predefined directory specified by the user.
  • Controls System: The assistant can execute system commands such as: - Shutdown - Restart - Lock the system

• Handling Commands: The assistant processes a wide range of commands such as:

  • Opening applications like a browser or Notepad.
  • Writing text in Notepad.
  • Taking screenshots and saving them.

Prerequisites

Make sure you have Python 3.x installed along with the following libraries:

• pyttsx3
• speech_recognition
• datetime
• wikipedia
• webbrowser
• os
• random
• cv2
• pywhatkit
• sys
• pyautogui
• time
• operator
• requests

You can install these dependencies using the following command:

pip install pyttsx3 speechrecognition pywhatkit pyautogui opencv-python wikipedia requests