Description:

Melissa is a virtual assistant for OS X, Windows and Linux systems. She currently uses Google Chrome's speech-to-text engine, OS X's say command, Linux's espeak command or Ivona TTS along with some magical scripting which makes her alive, developed by Tanay Pant and a group of sorcerers. The Web UI for Melissa has been designed by Nakul Saxena

This talk will cover:

1. Introduction
2. Installation
3. Configuration
4. Usage Guide
5. How to Contribute
6. External Links

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Prerequisites:

Good Familiarity with Python

Introductory knowledge of the following:

1. espeak
2. Flask
3. Flask-SocketIO
4. ngrok

Content URLs:

Presentation : https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QfmJAKiaYnYlzRPxZzUSNr7HmW-x5_wDkAHRo--ltw8/edit#slide=id.p4

Melissa on GitHub : https://github.com/Melissa-AI

Speaker Info:

Bhavesh is a Pythonista and loves to work on Open Source projects. Currently pursuing the final year of Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology from College of Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand.

He is a Python developer. He has done several freelance projects on python. His work is mainly in web development (Django and Flask), ReactJS, computer vision (OpenCV) and mobile development (Kivy).

He also contributes, code to Kivy, Melissa, and Fossasia.

Speaker Links:

1. Website : https://bhaveshan.github.io

2. GitHub : https://github.com/bhaveshAn

3. LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhavesh-anand-556b9568/

4. Twitter : https://twitter.com/BhaveshAnand11

5. Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/bhavesh.anand.3