Dicio assistant

Dicio is a

free and open source

voice assistant

. It supports many different

skills

and input/output methods, and it provides both

speech

and

graphical

feedback to a question. It uses

Vosk

for

speech to text

. It has

multilanguage

support, and is currently available in Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Slovenian and Spanish, Ukrainian.

Dicio answers questions about:

search

: looks up information on

DuckDuckGo

(and in the future more engines) -

Search for Dicio

weather

: collects weather information from

OpenWeatherMap

-

What's the weather like?

lyrics

: shows

Genius

lyrics for songs -

What's the song that goes we will we will rock you?

open

: opens an app on your device -

Open NewPipe

calculator

: evaluates basic calculations -

What is four thousand and two times three minus a million divided by three hundred?

telephone

: view and call contacts -

Call Tom

timer

: set, query and cancel timers -

Set a timer for eleven minutes

current time

: query current time -

What time is it?

navigation

: opens the navigation app at the requested position -

Take me to New York, fifteenth avenue

Dicio can receive input through a text box or through

Vosk

speech to text

, and can talk using toasts or the Android

speech synthesis

engine.

Interactive graphical output

is provided by skills when they answer a question.

Each skill can be enabled, disabled or customized using the related settings screen. Dark, black and dynamic color themes are available.

The user input is interpreted by specific, yet reusable, libraries:

dicio-sentences-compiler

and

dicio-numbers

.

This app has the

NonFreeNet

anti-feature because some skills use non-free services to obtain the information requested by the user. You can easily disable unwanted skills or choose alternative services via settings.