speechy-recon-app

Project targets into text-to-speech/voice recognition implementation for database of writers and their novels. App is fetching data from JSON file, parsing them and then using pyttsx3 voice engine to read aloud. User can also search database by reading aloud name and surname of the author. This functionality is possible due to speech-recognition module usage.

NOTE: from 0.6 version release, records added by user are now automatically proccessed with two stages:

• fetching image from Google of choosen writer
• fetching summary from wikipedia of choosen writer

Requirements

• Python >= 3.3
• Pip
• pyttsx3 module
• PIL module
• wikipedia module
• simple img download module
• more...

Application is compatible on all OS platforms with required python packages.

NOTE: To enlist full requirements, please see requirements.txt file and get_version shell script.

User Guide

• To show bio and image for author, select right name from database list
• To request speechy to read bio aloud, click Speech button

• add new record to database with Database button
• type your author's name and sample bio
• image and bio should be fetched from web. In case of fetch failure from wikipedia, your sample bio will be displayed.

• restart application to see updated database records with your author's name

• remove any record from database with Remove button in database instance window

Installation

Make sure you have all needed modules installed. In case you don't know, just type:

$ pip install pyttsx3 / $ pip install pillow

Or just simply call requirements to force pip to install all needed packages from file:

$ pip install -r requirements.txt and after that module for PIL - $ pip install pillow

Shell script

You can also use get_version script to install proper packages.

NOTE: Run script with root/admin privileges. Still in WIP state.

You can also just use PyCharm and manually download those from syntax guessing tool.

T2S en-US package

If you are using Windows with polish language pack, please expect sloppy and weird pronunciation - text-to-speech module installation is based on provided language pack in system. Consider installing en-US Windows language pack from this Microsoft instruction: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/language-packs-for-windows-a5094319-a92d-18de-5b53-1cfc697cfca8