mac-voice-assistant 0.1.0

A voice assistant prototype

1. Brew

• Run the following in your project terminal if you do not have bew installed already $ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

2. Portaudio

$ brew install portaudio

3. PyAudio

$ pip3 install pyaudio

If Pyaudio cannot be installed with the default pip install command, Use instead the following: $ pip install --global-option='build_ext' --global-option='-I/usr/local/include' --global-option='-L/usr/local/lib' pyaudio Refer to this link if this is not working

###4. NeuralIntents $ pip install neuralintents (Run this only if neuralintents.py file is missing)

Start

While being in the venv $ python main.py

• If you run into SSL certification error, search for Certificates.command in spotlight and open the file. It should install the necessary certificates

The downloader script is broken. As a temporal workaround can manually download the punkt tokenizer from here and then place the unzipped folder in the corresponding location. The default folders for each OS are:

Windows: C:\nltk_data\tokenizers

OSX: /usr/local/share/nltk_data/tokenizers

Unix: /usr/share/nltk_data/tokenizers

Required libraries:

• $ pip install keyboard
• $ pip install pyjokes
• $ pip install playsound