S1mone

Apr. 1, 2021

A Virtual Personal Assistant with a robot interface inspired by the movie “Wall-E”. Your own personal assistant, equipped with facial recognition, voice recognition, and the ability to chitchat will be first among many other features.

Tech used

In this version 0.1, we started with a simple GUI with animated eyes to motivate ourselves in the long journey to make our assistant S1mone a little better and friendlier.

Here is a short clip showing three expressions of S1mone. We have the blinking expression which will be employed most of the time, for e.g. while idling. We also have the raise eye expression for when S1mone does not understand us, and a sad face expression. We can currently cycle between the three expressions using the left and right arrow keys.

More to come

In the next iteration

• Move the pygame canvas into a tkinter window with text field for keyboard input
• Optimize expression - configuration, storing, and a separated class