Alpha

Alpha is the ongoing expanding virtual assistance. Version 2 is an upgraded version NOTE: DEVELOPMENT WILL HALT UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE AFTER THE RELEASE OF V3.0

Current Version status:

1. Version: 2.1

2. Version status: 2.0 is stable. 2.1 under Beta testing

3. Development status: Actively

4. Bug fixes: Addressed

5. Requiring help in packing this project into an exe (scroll down for dev notes)

Notes

All opinion are based on the internet. Do not feel offended if opinions generated by Alpha is inappropiate or not to your liking. Alpha_main.py is still under development. It is uploaded for no reason

Known problems

Chromium may be required if you run it on VM

Sypnosis

Alpha has been made in attempt to expand as a smart virtual assistant, yet being dumb at the same time to provide quick responses to your questions during your daily lives.

Installation

For coders:

1. Install python 3.6 (64bit)
2. Run this line in your terminal python -m setup.py install
3. Run usersettings.py
4. Good to go!

Current Functions

1. Advanced search function
2. Google web scraping
3. Urban dictionary web scraping
4. Stack Overflow web scraping
5. Alarm
6. Check system information
7. Tell time, date, weather
8. Rickroll you
9. And more

Privacy and piracy

1. WE do not hide backend as seen in our source code.
2. Currently, we have noticed that an inferior socialist supporter, namely, [Meow Zhe Dong] is attempting to commit piracy for burgers. Beware of him.

TODO

Feel free to add more functions by issues and have fun!!

Difficulties faced

The speech recognition function is yet to be improved both in the response speed and accuracy. Currently, it is using Google SpeechRecognition services. As such, one limiting factor is the internet speed. Alternatives include finding an Offline Speech Recognition model as it is impossible to train a speech recognition dataset all by myself, as such, accuracy cannot be controlled too.

EXE version

To be uploaded

NOTE

Alpha V1-V1.3 will not be released due to instability

Developer Notes

Packaging into EXE

You can easily do that with the help of pyinstaller with the following commands in terminal. Installing dependencies

pip install pyinstaller

pip install pyinstaller[encryption]

Then run the following command for alpha_main

python -m eel alpha_main.py web --onefile --noconsole --key=abcdefghijklmnop

Note that alpha_main.py can be replaced by other python programs such as usersettings. "web" is the variable for the folder for all your web UIs (HTML related codes). The onefile attribute puts all files into one single file for asthetics. noconsole attribute is used to hide the terminal but please remove it if you would like to debug the program easily. Finally, key attribute is used for the encoding, it is optional but added for security.