Voice Assistant with Gemini AI

This is a personal voice assistant built with Python. It leverages Google's Gemini AI for content generation and a variety of libraries to handle speech recognition, text-to-speech, and web Browse commands.

Features

• Voice Recognition: Understands and processes spoken commands.
• AI-powered Content Generation: Utilizes the Gemini API to generate creative and informative text.
• Text-to-Speech: Responds to your commands with a voice.
• Time & Date: Provides the current time and date upon request.
• Web Browser Integration: Opens specified websites like YouTube and GitHub with simple voice commands.

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Prerequisites

Before you run the assistant, you need to have Python installed on your system. This project was developed and tested on Python 3.x.

All required libraries are listed in the requirements.txt file. You can install them all with a single command.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: For the PyAudio library, you might need to install additional system-level dependencies depending on your operating system. For more information, please refer to the official PyAudio documentation.

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Gemini API Key

This project requires a Google Gemini API key to generate AI content.

1. Go to the Google AI Studio website.
2. Follow the instructions to get an API key.
3. Store your API key securely. You can create a file (e.g., .env) to hold it:

# .env
API_KEY = "YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY"

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Usage

1. Clone this repository or download the project files.
2. Install the required dependencies using the requirements.txt file (see the "Prerequisites" section).
3. Open the main Python file (main.py or similar).
4. Run the file from your terminal:

python main.py

The assistant will start and wait for your command. You can then speak to it using the specified wake word or command structure (e.g., "Hello assistant...", "Hey there...").

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Commands

Here are some example commands you can use with the assistant:

• "Open YouTube": Opens the YouTube website in your default browser.
• "Open GitHub": Opens the GitHub website in your default browser.
• "Generate some content about [topic]": Uses the Gemini AI to generate a response about the given topic.

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Project Structure

• main.py: The main script that initializes the assistant, handles speech recognition, and processes commands.
• contentGenaration.py: A module that interfaces with the Gemini API to generate content.
• requirements.txt: A list of all Python libraries needed for the project.
• README.md: This file.

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Libraries Used

• speech_recognition: A library for performing speech recognition with support for various engines and APIs, online and offline.
• pyttsx3: A cross-platform text-to-speech conversion library.
• PyAudio: Required for speech_recognition to handle audio input from the microphone.
• google-generativeai: The official Python library for the Google Gemini API.
• datetime: A built-in Python module for working with dates and times.
• webbrowser: A built-in Python module. I use this to open YouTube and GitHub.