Casa Virtual Assistant

Inspiration

I personally wanted to use Speech Recognition to build my own version of Google Assistant or Alexa. I personally have a Google Assistant and I find them very intriguing and always wondered how they could hear us and do commands. I use it everyday to check the weather before going on my morning runs too! It was so much fun building it. I called Casa, which stands for "home" in Spanish. We are currently al mostly home during this pandemic and that is what gave me the inspo.

What it does

When called it's name "Casa" it will do the task given and return the data through speech and text. For example, if you were to say "Casa what time is it?" it will listen first for its name "casa" and return back the time and date through speech and text on the screen. You will see the word "listening..." and that is the que to begin speaking so Casa may hear your request. It currently performs time, date, music, searching info (mini google), and jokes!

How I built it

I used Python and Speech Recognition

Challenges I ran into

Sometimes the Speech Recognition wouldn't be so accurate so I had to train it a bit to listen and understand my accent. That is something I do want to make better in the future, to understand many accents and languages. Also, installing some of the libraries was difficult since I haven't worked with them too much and only read about them. It was so fun putting my knowledge to the test.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I got to use Speech Recognition and built my very own version of a Virtual Assistant!

What I learned

How to better comment on python and training it to listen better my accent.

What's next for Casa Virtual Assistant

More languages that it can understand accurately. More things to expand on and possible creating a physical skelton of it like Alexa or Google Assistant.