Code that goes with blog post https://ggulati.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/coding-jarvis-in-python-3-in-2016/ —with modifications for Mac OS X.

README.md

Speech recognition demo by ggulati

Original https://gist.github.com/GGulati/1ebaeaaa7f7408647fef via https://ggulati.wordpress.com/2016/02/24/coding-jarvis-in-python-3-in-2016/ via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11172727

I did some modifications to try to get it to work on Mac OS.

Install

These are the instructions for Mac OS 10.10.x

brew install portaudio flac swig
pip install -r requirements.txt

Note installing pyobjc pulls in a kitchen sink full of stuff, so you'll have to go get a coffee.

Super fix

Monkey patch the file lib/python2.7/site-packages/pyttsx/drivers/nsss.py by adding the line

from objc import super

at the top of the file.

Still no cigar

Apparently pyttsx isn't maintained anymore, so the program hangs: RapidWareTech/pyttsx#26

jarvis.py

from __future__ import print_function
import speech_recognition
import pyttsx

speech_engine = pyttsx.init('nsss')
speech_engine.setProperty('rate', 150)

recognizer = speech_recognition.Recognizer()
microphone = speech_recognition.Microphone()

def listen():
    with microphone as source:
        recognizer.adjust_for_ambient_noise(source)
        audio = recognizer.listen(source)
        print("Got it! Now to recognize it...")
    
    try:
        # recognizer.recognize_sphinx(audio)   # == not very good out of the box
        value = recognizer.recognize_google(audio)
        return value
    except speech_recognition.UnknownValueError:
        print("Could not understand audio")
    except speech_recognition.RequestError as e:
        print("Recog Error; {0}".format(e))
    return ""

speech_engine.say('Say something!')
# speech_engine.runAndWait()              # hangs here...
said = listen()
print(said)
# speech_engine.say('I heard you say ' + said)
# speech_engine.runAndWait()              # hangs here...

requirements.txt

altgraph==0.12
macholib==1.7
modulegraph==0.12.1
py2app==0.9
PyAudio==0.2.9
pyobjc==3.0.4
pyttsx==1.1
SpeechRecognition==3.3.0
pocketsphinx==0.0.9