If you want to develop a voice assistant, which language would you use?

Question

I am trying to develop a voice assistant, but I am confused on which language to use. I want the app to work properly on both windows and android. If you have any suggestions please post them.

Answer 1

Python would be the best answer. Python has a lot of tools that you can use for this purpose.

Answer 2

Definitly python. it has readily available lots of tools and libraries for us. For these type of projects i highly recommend python. Here are some tools and libraries might help you.

wikipedia - Get information from wikipedia or to perform wikipedia search

pip install wikipedia

Request - Making GET and POST requests.

pip install requests

Beautifulsoup4 - A library that makes it easy to scrape information from web pages.

pip install beautifulsoup4

Pyttsx3 - Used for conversion of text to speech in a program it woks offline.

pip install pyttsx3

Wolframalpha - Compute expert-level answers using Wolfram's algorithms, knowledgebase and AI technology.

pip install wolframaplha

Subprocess - Getting system subprocess details which are used in various commands. for example, Sleep, Shutdown etc. This module comes built-in with python.

Web browser - To perform web search. built-in with python

Twilio - For making call and messages.

pip install twilio

Tkinter - For building GUI. Comes built-in with python.

Hope you will find this information helpful.