Voice Assistant

A modern voice assistant with GUI interface that can control your system, manage volume, fetch news, and more.

Features

• System controls (shutdown, restart)
• Volume controls (increase, decrease, set specific level)
• Application launching
• News headlines fetching
• Screen context awareness
• Modern GUI interface with start/stop listening button

Installation

1. Make sure you have Python 3.8 or higher installed
2. Install the required dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Run the application:

   python main.py

Required Dependencies

• PyQt6 (GUI interface)
• speech_recognition (voice recognition)
• pyttsx3 (text-to-speech)
• requests (for news API)
• pycaw (volume control)

Usage

1. Launch the application using python main.py
2. Click the "Start Listening" button to begin voice recognition
3. Speak commands clearly into your microphone
4. Click "Stop Listening" when you're done

Available Commands

• "Set volume to [number]" - Sets system volume to specified percentage
• "Volume up" or "Increase volume" - Increases volume by 10%
• "Volume down" or "Decrease volume" - Decreases volume by 10%
• "Shutdown" - Initiates system shutdown
• "Restart" - Initiates system restart
• "Open [application]" - Launches specified application
• "Get news" - Fetches and reads latest news headlines
• "What's on screen" - Describes current screen context