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Ara, an open source personal assistant

Ara an OPEN SOURCE voice assistant πŸŽ™πŸ“±

What is Ara

Well, Ara came about as an idea in January of this year, I wanted a side project that I would enjoy, so with the help of some Friends (Chris and Eric) I started working on an Android app that would become Ara.
I wanted a great open source voice assistant app that could compete with the likes of Google and Amazon. after thinking about this we established 3 main goals:

  • make a voice recognition system that can be run locally
  • complete data privacy
  • provide useful information on opening the app

To accomplish these goals I have used 100% open source software so I can guarantee no tracking, have extensive documentation for the SDKs I am using, and let the world use my code in there own projects.
I also did this as a proof of concept for an idea that is described here:

What needs to be done?

Ara is not done it needs 4 main things before a beta can be released

  • Expanded voice capability
  • Voice output
  • Skills SDK (ara used to be able to detect several commands via the keyboard, but that was dropped for the development of this feature)
  • IOT support

We also have some long term features we are working on:

  • A public (hosted on are server) and privatec (hosted on, lets say a company servers) account system for easy data synchronization

contributing

please feel free to contribute, I normally do basic frontend stuff so all this AI and server stuff is hard for me I NEED the help.

GitHub logo FultonBrowne / Ara-android

A virtual assistant for almost any android phone.

Welcome to Ara for Android πŸ‘‹

By Andromeda Software

An ai assistant app for almost any android phone, That cares about privacy and productivity Get it on Google Play alt text

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Usage

  • Open in android studio and use the normal steps to run
or
  • ./gradlew test to run the unit tests
  • ./gradlew install to install the app

Author

πŸ‘€ Fulton Browne

🀝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check issues page. If you contribute please commit to a new branch and explain details in your pull request not in your commit.

If you want to become an active contributor go here.

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Show your support

Give a ⭐️ if this project helped you!

πŸ“ License

Copyright Β© 2020 Fulton Browne.
This project is GPL-3.0 licensed.


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GitHub logo FultonBrowne / Ara-Server

The server for Ara.

Welcome to Ara's serverπŸ‘‹

By Andromeda Software

The server that powers feed, AI search, and skills to the ara voice assistant

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Running (incomplete)

make build to build

make test to run tests (note you may have to export nlp location outside of the make file)

Author

πŸ‘€ Fulton Browne

🀝 Contributing

Contributions, issues and feature requests are welcome!
Feel free to check issues page. If you contribute please commit to a new branch and explain details in your pull request not in your commit.

Open in Gitpod

If you want to become an active contributor go here.

Show your support

Give a ⭐️ if this project helped you!

πŸ“ License

Copyright Β© 2019 Fulton Browne.
This project is GPL-3.0 licensed.


This README was generated with ❀️ by readme-md-generator

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David Dal Busco

Your Github's stats are solid, that's dedication!

Keep on going the great work and thx for the sharing your project and article πŸ‘

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Fulton Browne

Thanks I really appreciate it!

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Jeff Meyerson

Do you anticipate turning this into a business? Or getting donations?

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Fulton Browne

At some point, now I just want it to work :)

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Barney

If you could make some screenshots or demo video it would be great to see in the post. 😊

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Fulton Browne • Edited

Thanks I will get on it soon