🤖 Nova Chatbot – Voice Assistant using Python

🚀 Internship Project | Voice Assistant & Automation

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📌 Project Overview

This project implements Nova, a Python-based voice-activated personal assistant capable of:

• Speaking and listening to user commands
• Managing reminders
• Fetching live weather updates
• Providing news headlines

Nova leverages speech recognition, text-to-speech (TTS), and API integration to interact naturally with the user.

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🧰 Technologies Used

• Python 3.x
• Pandas
• SpeechRecognition
• gTTS (Google Text-to-Speech)
• Playsound (for audio playback)
• Requests
• Word2Number

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📂 Project Structure

Chatbot/ │ ├─ main.py # Main program ├─ config.py # API keys ├─ requirements.txt # Python dependencies ├─ README.md # Project documentation ├─ .gitignore │ ├─ modules/ │ ├─ init.py │ ├─ speech.py # Handles TTS & speech recognition │ ├─ reminders.py # Add, show, delete reminders │ ├─ weather.py # Fetch weather via API │ └─ news.py # Fetch news via API │ └─ data/ └─ reminders.csv # Stored reminders

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📝 Features

1. Voice Interaction

   • Nova listens to your commands and responds via speech.
   • Example commands:
     • Set reminder to eat at 12 pm
     • Show reminders
     • Delete reminder 2
     • Show weather
     • Show news

2. Reminders Management

   • Add reminders with task, date, and time
   • Show all reminders
   • Delete a specific reminder or all reminders

3. Weather Updates

   • Uses IP-based geolocation to fetch the current city
   • Retrieves live weather data from Weather API
   • Outputs temperature, condition, humidity, wind speed, visibility

4. News Headlines

   • Fetches latest news from NewsAPI
   • Returns top 5 headlines in English

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🧹 How it Works

1. Greeting
   Nova greets the user upon starting the program.

2. Command Processing

   • Voice input is captured and converted to text using SpeechRecognition
   • Commands are parsed for specific actions:
     • Reminders (set, show, delete)
     • Weather updates (weather)
     • News headlines (news)

3. Text-to-Speech

   • Responses are generated using gTTS
   • Audio played via playsound

4. Time Parsing

   • Converts 12-hour format commands into 24-hour format for reminders
   • Supports both numeric and word-based time inputs (1 pm or one pm)

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▶️ How to Run the Project

1️⃣ Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

2️⃣ Run the chatbot

python main.py

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📌 Key Highlights

• Real-time speech recognition and TTS
• Fully functional reminder system
• Live weather and news updates
• Modular Python code for easy maintenance
• Uses external APIs with proper configuration in config.py
• Beginner-friendly, clean, and well-commented code

👨‍💻 Author

Arnab Datta

-Internship Project – Python Voice Assistant & Automation