Desktop-Assistant

The purpose of this project is to make a Desktop Assistant that can help a person while on his/her computer.

The name of the assistant is Violet.

Please change any of the file paths based on your system when downloading this project.

To run this program open your console and run using "python assistant.py"

To get all the essentail librabries that are needed to run this program then run

    pip install -r requirements.txt

All wev pages are opened on Google Chrome.

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The librabries used are -

speech_recognition 
pyttsx3 
tkinter 
datetime 
webbrowser 
subprocess 
os 
googlesearch 
pyjokes 
winshell
pyown
smtplib
time
urllib
json
playsound

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The features of this assistant are -

You can also view these instructions from the virtual assistant by saying "instructions".
To contact me by saying "contact your maker".
Time
Date
Respond to basic messages
Opens google,youtube,spotify,whatsapp web,facebook,quora,stackoverflow,wikipedia,pinterest,reddit,twitter.
Finds the location of a place using google maps.
Can open calculator,notepad,camera and steam.
Can tell a joke.
Empty recycle bin.
Send a mail.
Tell the current weather report for any place on the planet.
Hows the top news from Times of India.
Can set an alarm.
Lists out the microphones that your system has.
You can also stop the virtual assistant from listening for a certain period of time.
You can shutdown your system using the assistant.
The project can also give you the top 10 urls of a google search.
To close the assistant say "exit".

To see how to use these features please refer to the instructions.txt file.

To get the API keys please refer to the api.txt file.

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More features will be added with time.