Make Python Talk

Build voice-controlled apps; starting with a Python refresher and an introduction to speech-recognition/text-to-speech functionalities, then more advanced topics, like making your own modules and building working voice-controlled apps. Each chapter includes multiple projects and end-of-chapter exercise. You‘ll interactive games, like Connect Four and Tic-Tac-Toe, and create intelligent computer opponents that talk and take commands; you‘ll make a real-time language translator, and create voice-activated financial-market apps that track stocks or cryptocurrencies. Finally, you‘ll load all of these features into the ultimate virtual personal assistant: a conversational VPA that tells jokes, reads the news, and gives you hands-free control of your email, browser, music player, desktop files, and more. Includes skills to build Python modules, implement animations, and integrate live data into an app; use web-scraping skills for voice-controlling podcasts, videos, and web searches; fine-tune the speech recognition to accept a variety of input; associate regular tasks like opening files and accessing the web with speech commands; and integrate functionality from other programs into a single VPA with computational knowledge engines to answer almost any question.