Dicio assistant Personal Assistants app for Android description
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 English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
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 - Whats the weather like?
- lyrics: shows Genius lyrics for songs - Whats 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. A dark theme is available.
The user input is interpreted by specific, yet reusable, libraries: dicio-sentences-compiler, dicio-skill 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.
