Stephanie, open-source virtual assistant built to control and automate tasks

For anyone else on Linux that gets the error:<p>Default Audio Player for mp3 files is not set up, like vlc or something.<p>when you try to run it, note that Stephanie depends on the python module os.startfile[0] which apparently is a Windows only thing that works like xdg-open. I&#x27;m not a python expert but here&#x27;s what I did: the offending file is stephanie-va-master&#x2F;Stephanie&#x2F;TextManager&#x2F;speaker.py. If you edit line 15 which is:<p>os.startfile(self.speak_result)<p>and change it to:<p>os.system(&quot;xdg-open &quot; + self.speak_result)<p>everything works. Somebody else more knowledgeable can probably suggest something better.<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3.6&#x2F;library&#x2F;os.html#os.startfile" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;docs.python.org&#x2F;3.6&#x2F;library&#x2F;os.html#os.startfile</a><p>Edit: Fixed! They fixed it by wrapping that line in an if statement checking the output of sys.platform. Very responsive dev.

The website is a way better source than the Github repo: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slapbot.github.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;slapbot.github.io&#x2F;</a>

There are lots of projects like this today; but I think the most important and useful thing (profoundly missing) is an open source state-of-art offline (or maybe hybrid) speech recognition package. Until that happens, almost nothing has changed.

This is exactly the kind of IoT I was hoping for. Not the bastardized corporate data-mining kind.<p>Hope this project keeps growing!

&gt; or just write your own modules to extend the functionality of the application using simple as f<i></i>* guide.<p>I&#x27;m not one to be a prude... but, is this really necessary?

I would recommend re-recording the video with a better audio setup, including a good mic or try to process the audio somehow. It&#x27;s a bit difficult to hear.

Cool! Any video demo or anything of this anywhere?

I&#x27;m sure this is a great project, but for once, it would be wonderful if Virtual Assistants weren&#x27;t named after women.

Nice. Anyone interested in porting this to Android to replace Google voice-driven services? F-Droid needs this.

Someday, someone will buck the trend of naming their voice assistant with a woman&#x27;s name. Sadly, today is not that day.

Slapbot?

How many times have you complained about 99% of soldiers being male? Let me guess, none. Or 75% of suicides being males? Let me guess, none too. Now, how many times you have complained about the gender of artificial computer voices like you just did? many times right? Not only you give this kind of inane issues any relevance whatsoever, you give none to any actual form of equality and pretend us to take it seriously.