ALPHA : Personal Assistant in Chat Box

Abstract

This research paper gives a comprehensive view of a virtual assistant named “Alpha” which is developed using the concept of Artificial intelligence, to aid in education, market, business and many other fields.This bot is programmed in python and is stored in raspberry pi, providing it a user friendly environment by making the bot move along with the user. A virtual assistant is an application that takes voice input, processes it and then gives output according to the input. Alpha is a real time, interactive bot and it is built on the latest technologies. It uses numerous python Libraries to help perform various functions that enable the Assistant to assist its user in day to day activities. The Assistant can convert text to speech and vice versa using gTTS and speech Recognition libraries respectively. It is a multilingual digital employee that speaks, listens and comprehends over 26 languages. It has other interesting features of face recognition and registration, smog sensing and alcohol sensing. It is also capable of making payments using the QR scanner feature added to it.