Open Source Python Voice Assistants

Mycroft is the world’s leading open source voice assistant. It is private by default and completely customizable. Our software runs on many platforms, on desktop, our reference hardware, a Raspberry Pi, or your own custom hardware. Our open-source, modular system can be ported to your device or environment, at any price point. Whether you make voice-assistants, televisions, or microwaves. Whether you have a 5-room BnB or a 1000-room hotel. Your customers will get access to all the necessities of a voice assistant. Our software and essential services are free (as in freedom) and also gratis (at no cost to you or them). And especially not at the cost of their (or your) privacy! Your customers will be able to upgrade their experience with premium content and services. The Mycroft open source voice stack can be freely remixed, extended, and deployed anywhere. Mycroft may be used in anything from a science project to a global enterprise environment.

Jarvis is a voice commanding assistant service in Python 3.8 It can recognize human speech, talk to user and execute basic commands. Opens a web page (e.g 'Jarvis open youtube') Play music in Youtube (e.g 'Jarvis play mozart') Increase/decrease the speakers master volume (also can set max/mute speakers volume) (e.g 'Jarvis volume up!') Opens libreoffice suite applications (calc, writer, impress) (e.g 'Jarvis open calc') Tells about something, by searching on the internet (e.g 'Jarvis tells me about oranges') Tells the weather for a place (e.g 'Jarvis tell_the_skills me the weather in London') Tells the current time and/or date (e.g 'Jarvis tell me time or date') Set an alarm (e.g 'Jarvis create a new alarm') Tells the internet speed (ping, uplink and downling) (e.g 'Jarvis tell_the_skills me the internet speed') Tells the internet availability (e.g 'Jarvis is the internet connection ok?') Tells the daily news (e.g 'Jarvis tell me today news')

Rasa is an open source machine learning framework to automate text-and voice-based conversations. With Rasa, you can build contextual assistants on Facebook Messenger, Slack, Google Hangouts, Webex Teams, Microsoft Bot Framework, Rocket.Chat, Mattermost, Telegram, and Twilio or on your own custom conversational channels. Rasa helps you build contextual assistants capable of having layered conversations with lots of back-and-forths. In order for a human to have a meaningful exchange with a contextual assistant, the assistant needs to be able to use context to build on things that were previously discussed. Rasa enables you to build assistants that can do this in a scalable way. Rasa uses Poetry for packaging and dependency management. If you want to build it from the source, you have to install Poetry first. By default, Poetry will try to use the currently activated Python version to create the virtual environment for the current project automatically.

Project Alice is a smart voice home assistant that is completely modular and extensible. It was first built around Snips therefore runs entirely offline and never sends or shares your voice interactions with anyone, Project Alice guarantees your privacy in your home or wherever you’re using Project Alice. However, as an option, since we've built Project Alice on top of Snips, Project Alice can be configured to use some online alternatives and fall backs (for example, using Amazon or Google’s Text to Speech engines), just like Snips. Since Snips (and the Project Alice team) strongly believe that decisions about your privacy should be made by you and you alone, these options are all disabled by default. The original code base was started at the end 2015 and several rewrites made it what it is today. It was entirely written by me Psycho until recently, where I decided to make the code openly available to the world.

Rhino is Picovoice's Speech-to-Intent engine. It directly infers intent from spoken commands within a given context of interest, in real-time. The end-to-end platform for embedding private voice AI into any software in a few lines of code. Design with no limits on top of a modular platform. Create use-case-specific voice AI models in seconds. Develop voice features with a few lines of code using intuitive and cross-platform SDKs. Deliver voice AI everywhere: on-device, mobile, web browsers, on-premise, or cloud. Measure adoption, learn, and iterate. Continuously re-design and re-train to optimize engagement. Building accurate, responsive, and private voice technology is difficult. We learned the hard way, so you don’t have to. Picovoice heavily invests in R&D to offer superior voice AI that surpasses even Big Tech in accuracy and efficiency. Picovoice researchers do not follow recent frameworks and techniques but build them.

Snips NLU is a Natural Language Understanding python library that allows to parse sentences written in natural language, and extract structured information. It’s the library that powers the NLU engine used in the Snips Console that you can use to create awesome and private-by-design voice assistants. The exact output is a bit richer, the point here is to give a glimpse on what kind of information can be extracted. Behind every chatbot and voice assistant lies a common piece of technology: Natural Language Understanding (NLU). Anytime a user interacts with an AI using natural language, their words need to be translated into a machine-readable description of what they meant. The NLU engine first detects what the intention of the user is (a.k.a. intent), then extracts the parameters (called slots) of the query. The developer can then use this to determine the appropriate action or response.

Adds support for Yandex Smart Home (Alice voice assistant) into Home Assistant. The component allows you to add devices from Home Assistant to the Yandex smart home platform and manage them from any device with Alice. The component runs on Home Assistant version 2023.2 or later.