Make Python Talk: Build Apps with Voice Control and Speech Recognition
- Length: 384 pages
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
- Publisher: No Starch Press
- Publication Date: 2021-08-17
- ISBN-10: 1718501560
- ISBN-13: 9781718501560
- Sales Rank: #3293126 (See Top 100 Books)
A project-based book that teaches beginning Python programmers how to build working, useful, and fun voice-controlled applications.
This fun, hands-on book will take your basic Python skills to the next level as you build voice-controlled apps to use in your daily life. Starting with a Python refresher and an introduction to speech-recognition/text-to-speech functionalities, you’ll soon ease into more advanced topics, like making your own modules and building working voice-controlled apps.
Each chapter scaffolds multiple projects that allow you to see real results from your code at a manageable pace, while end-of-chapter exercises strengthen your understanding of new concepts. You’ll design 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 the stocks or cryptocurrencies you are interested in. 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.
Along the way, you’ll learn how 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
- Integrate functionality from other programs into a single VPA with computational knowledge engines to answer almost any question
Packed with cross-platform code examples to download, practice activities and exercises, and explainer images, you’ll quickly become proficient in Python coding in general and speech recognition/text to speech in particular.
Title Page Copyright Dedication About the Author ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction About This Book What’s in This Book? Part I: Getting Started Chapter 1: Setting Up Python, Anaconda, and Spyder Introducing Anaconda and Spyder Installing Anaconda and Spyder Install Anaconda and Spyder in Windows Install Anaconda and Spyder in macOS Install Anaconda and Spyder in Linux Using Spyder Write Python in Spyder Inspect Code in Spyder Understanding Coding in Python Python Syntax Basic Operations in Python Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 2: Python Refresher Variables and Values Strings Floats Integers Bools Convert Variable Types Rules for Variable Names Loops and Conditional Execution Conditional Execution Loops Loops in Loops Loop Commands Strings String Indexing String Slicing String Methods Lists Create a List Access Elements in a List Use a List of Lists Add or Multiply Lists List Methods Use Built-in Functions with Lists list() Dictionaries Access Values in a Dictionary Use Dictionary Methods How to Use Dictionaries Switch Keys and Values Combine Two Dictionaries Tuples Functions Use Built-in Python Functions Define Your Own Functions Modules Import Modules Create Your Own Modules Use Third-Party Modules Create a Virtual Environment Activate the Virtual Environment in Windows Set Up Spyder in the Virtual Environment in Windows Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Part II: Learning to Talk Chapter 3: Speech Recognition Install the SpeechRecognition Module In Windows In Mac or Linux Test and Fine-Tune SpeechRecognition Import SpeechRecognition Test SpeechRecognition Fine-Tune the Speech Recognition Feature Perform a Voice-Controlled Web Search Use the webbrowser Module Add Voice Control Perform a Google Search Open Files Use the os and pathlib Modules to Access and Open Files Open Files via Voice Control Create and Import a Local Module Create the Local Module mysr Import mysr Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 4: Make Python Talk Install the Text-to-Speech Module Setup Test Your Text-to-Speech Module Repeat After Me Customize the Speech Retrieve Default Settings in the pyttsx3 Module in Windows Adjust Speech Properties in the pyttsx3 Module in Windows Customize the gTTS Module in Mac or Linux Build the Local mysay Module Create mysay Import mysay Build a Voice-Controlled Calculator Read a File Aloud Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 5: Speaking Applications Create Your Self-Made Local Python Package What’s a Python Package? Create Your Own Python Package Test Your Package More on Python Packages Interactive Guess the Number Game Speaking Newscast Scrape the News Summary Add the Text-to-Speech Features Voice-Controlled Wikipedia Access Wikipedia Add Speech Recognition and Text to Speech Voice-Activated Music Player Traverse Files in a Folder Python, Play Selena Gomez Python, Play a Country Song Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 6: Web Scraping Podcasts, Radios, and Videos A Primer on Web Scraping What Is HTML? Extract Information with Beautiful Soup Scrape Live Web Pages Voice-Activated Podcasts Extract and Play Podcasts Voice-Activate Podcasts Voice-Activated Radio Player Install the selenium Module Control Web Pages Voice-Activate Live Radio Voice-Activated Videos Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 7: Building a Virtual Personal Assistant An Overview of Your VPA Download VPA Files Install the arrow Module Manage the Standby Mode Create the Local Module mywakeup Set Some Responses Ask Your VPA to Set a Timer Tell the Time with Python Build a Timer Create the mytimer Module Set the Timer Ask Your VPA to Set an Alarm Clock Build an Alarm Clock Create the Alarm Clock Module Set an Alarm Ask Your VPA to Tell a Joke Create Your Joke List Create a Joke Module Tell a Joke Send Hands-Free Email Send Email with Written Commands Create the Email Module Add the Email Functionality Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 8: Know-It-All VPA Get Answers from WolframAlpha Apply for an API Key Retrieve Information Explore Different Areas of Knowledge Add a Know-It-All Functionality to Your VPA What WolframAlpha Cannot Answer Create the myknowall Module A VPA That Can Answer (Almost) Any Question for You Summary Part III: Interactive Games Chapter 9: Graphics and Animation with the turtle Module Basic Commands Create a turtle Screen Create Movements Basic Shapes Use the dot() Function Draw Your Own Shapes Draw Grid Lines Animation How Animation Works Use Multiple Turtles Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 10: Tic-Tac-Toe Game Rules Draw the Game Board Create the Game Pieces How Mouse Clicks Work in turtle Convert Mouse Clicks to Cell Numbers Place Game Pieces Determine Valid Moves, Wins, and Ties Voice-Controlled Version Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 11: Connect Four Game Rules Draw the Game Board The Mouse-Click Version Drop a Disc Animate the Falling Discs Determine Valid Moves, Wins, and Ties The Voice-Controlled Version Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 12: Guess-the-Word Game Game Rules Draw the Game Board The Text Version Load the Coins Guess the Letters Determine Valid Guesses, Wins, and Losses The Voice-Controlled Version Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 13: Smart Games: Adding Intelligence The Think-Three-Steps-Ahead Strategy Think One Step Ahead Think Two Steps Ahead Implement the Think-Two-Steps-Ahead Strategy Think Three Steps Ahead The Machine-Learning Strategy Create a Dataset of Simulated Games Apply the Data Test the Effectiveness of the Two Strategies The Think-Three-Steps-Ahead Strategy The Machine-Learning Strategy Why Doesn’t the Machine-Learning Strategy Work Well in Connect Four? Voice-Controlled Intelligent Connect Four Games A Voice-Controlled Game That Thinks Ahead A Voice-Controlled Game Using Machine Learning Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Part IV: Going Further Chapter 14: Financial Applications Python, What’s the Facebook Stock Price? Obtain the Latest Stock Price Find Ticker Symbols Retrieve Stock Prices via Voice Voice-Controlled Data Visualization Create Stock Price Plots Create Candlestick Charts Add Voice Control Voice-Controlled Stock Report Analyze Recent Stock Performance and Risk Add Voice Control Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 15: Stock Market Watch Bitcoin Watch How to Read JSON Data A Graphical Bitcoin Watch A Talking Bitcoin Watch A Talking Stock Market Watch Apply the Method to Other Financial Markets Summary End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 16: Use World Languages Text to Speech in Other Languages Install Modules Convert Text to Speech in Spanish Support Text to Speech in Other Languages Convert Text to Speech in World Languages Speech Recognition in Major World Languages A Talking Wikipedia Create Your Own Voice Translator A Text-Based Translator A Voice-Based Translator Summary Chapter 17: Ultimate Virtual Personal Assistant An Overview of the Final VPA The Chatting Functionality The Music Functionality Create a Music Module Activate the Music Functionality The News Brief Module Create a News Module Activate the News Functionality The Live Radio Module Create a Radio Module Activate the Radio Functionality The Tic-Tac-Toe Module Create a Tic-Tac-Toe Module Activate Tic-Tac-Toe The Connect Four Module Create a Connect Four Module Activate Connect Four The Stock Price Module Create a Stock Market–Tracking Module Activate the Stock Market–Tracking Functionalities The Voice Translator Module Create a Translator Module Activate the Voice Translator Summary Appendix A: Install Modules to Play Audio Files Install the playsound Module Windows Mac Linux Install the pydub Module Install the pygame Module Windows Mac Linux Install the vlc Module Sample Scripts to Test the Four Modules The playsound Module The pydub Module The pygame Module The vlc Module Appendix B: Suggested Answers to End-of-Chapter Exercises Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Index
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