mac-voice-assistant 0.3.0

A voice assistant prototype

Mac Voice Assistant

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This is a prototype software package which performs IO operations in the Host app via voice commands

Dependencies

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Run the following commands in your project terminal in the same order before installing Mac Voice Assistant

1. Brew

Run this if you do not have brew installed already

$ /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

2. Command Line Developer Tools - XCode (Mac Users)

Please ensure Xcode packages are up-to-date. Try running

• $ sudo xcodebuild -license
• $ xcodebuild -runFirstLaunch

3. Portaudio

$ brew install portaudio

4. PyAudio

$ pip3 install pyaudio

If Pyaudio could not be installed with the default pip install command, try the below code:

$ pip install --global-option='build_ext' --global-option='-I/usr/local/include' --global-option='-L/usr/local/lib' pyaudio

Refer to this link if you're still having trouble installing PyAudio

5. Finally Mac Voice Assistant

$ pip install mac_voice_assistant

Additionally:

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• 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