Python_Voice_Chatbot

Easy to use modular chatbot to talk to, get information from etc. (depends on enabled modules) and the best of all keeping your data private/locally. Therefore, the assistant can operate offline except by the use of some modules (e.g. weather module, etc.). Would love to see some reactions (issues, pull-requests, etc.). Please note, that this project is young and has not all featured functionalities.
This application uses the Chatterbot framework.

How to get started

To get your home assistant running you just have to take 1-2 steps (depends on whether you started the assistant before).

1. Execute setup.py once, if you newly downloaded this assistant
2. Execute main.py

Above steps will work assuming that you have all python libraries installed. Considering this I recommend using Docker, for that I have provided a Dockerfile.

Docker-Ready

To start the bot without any complications I made a Dockerfile for you guys. You will find this project also on Dockerhub (hub.docker.com/r/wsdt/python_voice_chatbot). Therefore you have two options to build the docker image:

1. Build docker image
   • Build the dockerfile yourself/locally.
     docker build -t wsdt/python_voice_chatbot .
     OR
   • You can also download the pre-compiled image from Dockerhub. Just pull the existing docker image (gets built every time a contributor pushes on Github).
     docker pull wsdt/python_voice_chatbot
2. Start a new container out of the newly created/built image:
   docker run wsdt/python_voice_chatbot
3. Verify that the container is running by:
   docker ps -a

For more detailed information I recommend you to look through the Docker-documentation.

Contribution

This project is licensed under GNU V3, so contributions/pull-requests are welcome. All contributors get listed here.

Contributors

• Kevin Riedl (WSDT)

How to contribute

To create new modules or changing/extending the application core, please take a look into following files, which are well commented (Better documentation follows):

1. ./starterkit/abstr_answer.py —> How to create a new module
2. ./setup.py —> How to install this assistant

Project not maintained due to other projects, which tried to do the same.

How to add an issue

1. Add a good title to your issue. Please use a concise and precise title.
   • BAD: “ServiceMgr”
   • GOOD: “Redesign/Improve ServiceMgr”
2. Add a good description to your issue. Your description doesn’t need to be concise, but should be clear/understandable and provide enough information for other contributors to solve the issue. For that I provided an issue template.

Python_Chatbot

You might have seen that I published also a quite similar repository called Python_Telegram_Chatbot [https://github.com/wsdt/Python_Telegram_Chatbot]. The Python_Chatbot repository is only a simple chatbot for your Telegram app, which can conversate with you and has some additional features like some information about your Instagram account, random quotes/pics/questions etc.

In contrast to that this repository provides are more modular interface and does not communicate via Telegram, but via voice with you.