Open Assistant

Current development has moved to Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/open-assistant/oa-arch

Open Source Voice Assistant: Make your own minds!

Open Assistant is an offline open source voice assistant prototype able to complete operating system tasks using vocal commands.

Installation

macOS

• Install brew if you have not already.
• Install pocketsphinx dependencies: brew install swig openal-soft
• Link the openal-soft libraries to the include path: ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/openal-soft/1.20.1/include/AL/* /usr/local/include
• pip3 install git+https://github.com/Im-Fran/pocketsphinx-python
• Install Python dependencies: pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Ubuntu Linux

• Install system requirements sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-dev python3-pip build-essential swig git libpulse-dev espeak libasound2-dev
• Install Python dependencies: pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Arch Linux

• Install system requirements sudo pacman -S swig espeak
• Install Python dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt

Using Open Assistant

• Download Open Assistant
• Run Open Assistant from within the unzipped directory: python -m oa or python3 -m oa
• Make sure your microphone is working and levels are set properly.
• Say "Boot Mind!" as a listening test. If you hear R2D2, boot mind is listening.
• Say "Open Assistant!" to launch root mind. Say "Root Mind!" to see if you can get the reply, "Hello World!"
• Say "List commands!" to get a list of available voice commands.
• Add your own!