7 Building a Virtual Personal Assistant

In this and the next chapter, you’ll learn how to create your own virtual personal assistant (VPA), similar to Amazon’s Alexa. You’ll first have an overview of your VPA and its functionalities. You’ll then import all needed modules at once so you can start to run your VPA right away. You’ll create a script to make your VPA stand by 24/7 without disturbing you. Whenever you need assistance, you can say, “Hello Python” to wake it up, and when you want it to stand by again, you can use a voice command to put it in standby mode.

After that, you’ll examine various functionalities to add to your VPA. The ...

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