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Helio : Android

Helio is an Intelligent Android voice assistant designed specially for the visually impaired. It's still in alpha, so please don't be rough.

Intro

Helio promises to be an intelligent assistant, which doesn't only give answers whenever his user wants, but also does whatever his user wishes it to.

Features Implemented

  • Speech Recogniser
  • Calling a Number based on Speech(Example of it could be "Call 9999999999")
  • Opening any application based on Speech (Example - "Open Facebook")
  • Putting the phone on silent mode (Keyword - "silence")
  • Describe what's happening in front of the user using Microsoft's Cognitive Services API and narrating the caption using text-to-speech engine
  • OCR using the same Cognitive Services API

WIP Features

I hope to finish them before the semester finishes.

  • Toggle various settings such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.
  • Spell out words for the user.
  • News and Finance related queries.
  • Pick up incoming calls or reply to messages.

Future features

  • Social Media Implementation.
  • Translation
  • Time based actions which the assistant will perform on the set date and time.
  • Translate the text of the any image using OCR and then into user’s chosen language.

Using the app

Requirements

  • A device with Android 5.1 or newer is required. Android L is IDEAL
  • Make sure you have a Text-To-Speech engine installed. The app will use the default one

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