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Now, before we get started running everything, let’s set up our project. I’d much rather use pyttsx3 and have everything running on my own machine. Looking at the two, I don’t want my assistant to be dependent on Google or an online connection to work. Here are the text to speech engines it uses on major operating systems:

Pyttsx3, on the other hand, is a text to speech conversion library that looks for text to speech engines pre-installed on your platform and uses them. It has the performance of Google’s own text to speech apps, but requires an internet connection to be used. Google Text To Speech is a Python library to interface with Google Translate’s text to speech API. pyttsx3 (I dont know what the hell that stands for).Let us instead stand on the shoulders of giants and use python packages.įor text to speech, there are a few python packages that stand out from the crowd:

After all, if we develop every single bit of this from scratch, we’d be here so long that we’d never get anything done. Now, one huge benefit of doing something like this with python is that we have a huge selection of libraries to use to get things done fast. If all goes well, I’ll build on this post in the future, making our assistant ever more complicated and useful. In today's post, I’m going to focus on the text to speech aspect of our computer assistant, allowing our computer to talk with us.

Turn responses into actions in the real world.

Some computation to understand our problem and create a response.

This is something you should do in every one of your projects so as to not get bogged down in all of its complexities all at once.įrom my brief thinking on this subject, I believe we can break up a super-intelligent AI assistant into four main parts: However, what we can do is break this problem up into smaller sections, making the problem seem easier. Now, making something as complicated as a super-intelligent AI is hard, too hard for me to do in a single post or most likely even in general. We’ll do so with a little programming and some smart python packages doing data science under the hood. Well, in this post, I’m going to show you how you can get started making your own computer assistant. If you’re a fan of movies like Iron Man, you’ve probably fantasised about getting your very own Jarvis.