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Python Robotics Projects

By : Prof. Diwakar Vaish
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Python Robotics Projects

By: Prof. Diwakar Vaish

Overview of this book

Robotics is a fast-growing industry. Multiple surveys state that investment in the field has increased tenfold in the last 6 years, and is set to become a $100-billion sector by 2020. Robots are prevalent throughout all industries, and they are all set to be a part of our domestic lives. This book starts with the installation and basic steps in configuring a robotic controller. You'll then move on to setting up your environment to use Python with the robotic controller. You'll dive deep into building simple robotic projects, such as a pet-feeding robot, and more complicated projects, such as machine learning enabled home automation system (Jarvis), vision processing based robots and a self-driven robotic vehicle using Python. By the end of this book, you'll know how to build smart robots using Python.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Making Jarvis understand our voice


Voice is an essence of communication. It helps us transfer huge amounts of data in a very short period of time. It is certainly faster and easier than typing. Hence, more and more companies are working toward making systems that understands human voice and language and work according to them. It is certainly not easy because of the huge variations that are present in the language; however, we have come a considerable distance. So without much time, let's make our system get ready to recognize our voice. 

So here, we would be using an API from Google Voice. As you may know, Google is really good at understanding what you say. Like, very literally. So it makes sense to use their API. Now, the way it works is very simple. We capture the voice, and we convert it into the text. Then, we compare if the text is similar to something we have defined in the configuration file. If it matches with anything, the bash command associated with it will be executed. 

First...