Alice

Digital Assistant for Linux (and Mac!), inspired by Cortana, Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant

Why did I decide to do this?

Because I thought it was a cool idea, I was bored, and also it was HackIllinois.

What technologies is this built on?

Alice is written in Python, with the libraries Numpy, Scikit, Scikit-learn, and Google Speech Recognition (on Android).

What can it do so far?

It can:

• Shut down your computer
• Lock your computer
• Close whatever window you have currently active
• Change your volume.
• Control the music that's playing (Rhythmbox on Ubuntu, Spotify on Mac OSX)
• Open your web browser and URLs
• Monitor incoming Facebook Messenger messages
• Monitor CPU activity, memory usage, and temperatures
• Monitors outdated packages in Apt and Pip
• Checking the time
• Google service integration for Gmail (checking inbox) and Calendar (checking events)
• Being able to create Google Calendar events
• Checking the weather
• Checking the news

Features for the future:

The planned features are:

• Opening files
• Closing arbitrary windows that are open on your computer
• Run system commands that you tell it to
• Setting alarms
• Launching Google maps and getting directions on the fly
• Able to send emails
• Changing your screen brightness
• Really anything else that I feel like adding...

Built With

• facebook-messenger
• google-speech
• machine-learning
• python
• scikit
• scikit-learn