Voice Controlled Departmental Noticeboard

Clone the project

First of all Fork the repo.

Then type the following command on the terminal to clone the repo keeping in mind to replace the {your-user-name} with your github user name.

git clone https://github.com/{your-user-name}/voice-controlled-departmental-noticeboard

Now you need to move to the project directory.

cd voice-controlled-departmental-noticeboard

Virtual Env

First install the virtual environment

pip install virtualenv

Type the following command to create a virtual environment.

virtualenv venv

Now activate the virtual environment

venv/Scripts/activate

In case your PC is not allowing the virtual environment to activate, then open the Windows Powershell with Open as administrator and type the following command on its shell.

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force

Then try activating the virtualenv again.
And to deactivate the virtual environment in any case type following in the terminal where it is activated.

deactivate

But donot deactivate while working on the project (Recommended).

Requirements

Step 1

First of all to install cmake library, the Visual Studio is required to be installed. Click here to download the Visual Studio (Community Pack is free).

Step 2

Install the Desktop Development with C++ tool with the Visual Studio installer. It will be necessary to compile the cmake lib.

Step 3

Now install the cmake lib with the following command on the terminal with virtual environment activated.

pip install cmake

Step 4

Now download the suitable pyaudio wheel.
For example in 'PyAudio‑0.2.11‑cp39‑cp39‑win_amd64.whl', 0.2.11 is showing the version, cp39 is showing the python version 3.9 whereas win_amd64 is showing that wheel is made for windows 64 bit processor.
Install the Pyaudio by writing the following command in the terminal.

pip install [path-to-downloaded-pyaudio-wheel]

Step 5

Now install all the other requirements.

pip install -r requirements.txt

How to run

Now you need to put the details provided by the host in the directory. If you donot have them, try asking from the host and place it.

Now run the following command, it will Boot the structure and will start working.

python init.py

Contribute to project

You can also contribute to the project. Read the instructions here. I will be more than happy to see your participation.

Code Of Conduct

You can also read our Code of Conduct.

License

MIT license