How to Build Your Own First Voice Assistant in Python

Description

Learning through your own little projects is the best and most enjoyable way to improve your skills. In the world of today, we all already use virtual assistants such as Alexa, Siri, Google Assistant, and others increasingly in our daily life. It is convenient and this will only increase in the next few years. So, wouldn't it be interesting to learn the fundamentals to create our own virtual assistant? This is exactly the goal of this course, and it creates a lot of fun doing it. We can ask our virtual assistant to play songs, search YouTube, return stock quotes, and do many other things. Doesn't that sound interesting? So, let's not waste any time and start working on this project together. You will start by running Jupyter Notebook and understanding some basic Python libraries. Followed by adding components of your virtual assistant like data, time, voice to text, and so on. Finally, you will execute and test your virtual assistant and modify it as per your requirement. The cherry on the top, you can also add this project to your own portfolio later to show potential employers your skills! By the end of this course, you will build a working and your first personal virtual assistant using Python and learn some basic Python libraries and modules. All the resource files are uploaded on the GitHub repository at https://github.com/PacktPublishing/How-to-build-your-own-first-Voice-Assistant-in-Python

What You Will Learn

Learn basics to start your project on virtual assistant in Python
Launch Jupyter Notebook and start testing modules
Implement basic Python and useful Python libraries and modules
Add voice to the text component
Add time and date related component
Run and test your voice assistant project

Audience

The course is designed for beginner to advanced level Python enthusiasts. Everyone who is interested in building a virtual assistant or students interested in building a chatbot, and finally, the ones who are interested in starting programming and looking for a project to add to their portfolio.

Windows system and Jupyter Notebook are used while building this project but feel free to choose the editor of your choice. No programming knowledge is required.

Approach

This is a short yet comprehensive course that focuses on building your own virtual assistant using Python.

The course is hands-on and highly practical in its approach. A step-by-step explanation of the modules and their implementations are shown in parallel.

Key Features

Build your personal voice assistant with the help of Python libraries and modules from scratch * Python beginners and experts can benefit from this project * Comes bundled with resource files that can be implemented while learning and add it to your own portfolio

Github Repo

https://github.com/PacktPublishing/How-to-build-your-own-first-Voice-Assistant-in-Python

About the Author

Dan We

Dan We is a 32-year-old entrepreneur, data scientist, and data analytics/visual analytics consultant. He holds a master's degree and is certified in Power BI as a qualified associate in Tableau. He is currently working in business intelligence and helps major companies get key insights from their data in order to deliver long-term growth and outpace their competitors. He is committed to supporting other people by offering them educational services to help them accomplish their goals and become the best in their profession or explore a new career path.

Course Outline

1. Your own Virtual Assistant in Python. Lets start the project