Building a Virtual Assistant for Raspberry Pi: The practical guide for constructing a voice-controlled virtual assistant
By Tanay Pant
Build a voice-controlled virtual assistant using text-to-speech engines, text-to-speech engines, and chat units. This book shows you how to program a virtual assistant to collect data from the Internet (weather data, data from Wikipedia, extract data); play music and take notes. Each chapter covers building a project / mini-module to make the default plugin better. You will develop the software on Linux or OS X before transferring it to Raspberry Pi, ready for deployment in home automation or Internet of Things applications.
- Author
- Tanay Pant
- Language
- English
- Size
- 5.93 Mb
- Pages
- 109
- Format
- Year
- 2016
- Edition
- 1
About This Book
Build a voice-controlled virtual assistant using text-to-speech engines, text-to-speech engines, and chat units. This book shows you how to program a virtual assistant to collect data from the Internet (weather data, data from Wikipedia, extract data); play music and take notes. Each chapter covers building a project / mini-module to make the default plugin better. You will develop the software on Linux or OS X before transferring it to Raspberry Pi, ready for deployment in home automation or Internet of Things applications.
Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction to Virtual Assistants
- Chapter 2: Understanding and Building an Application with STT and TTS
- Chapter 3: Getting Your Hands Dirty: Conversation Module
- Chapter 4: Using the Internet to Gather Information
- Chapter 5: Developing a Music Player for Melissa
- Chapter 6: Developing a Note-Taking Application
- Chapter 7: Building a Voice-Controlled Interface for Twitter and Imgur
- Chapter 8: Building a Web Interface for Melissa
- Chapter 9: Integrating the Software with Raspberry Pi, and Next Steps