# Kalliope

Kalliope is a modular always-on voice controlled personal assistant designed for home automation.
Kalliope is based on audio input recognition, so it recognize an order pronounced by the user and then execute actions attached to the order.

You can create your own Kalliope bot, by simply choosing and composing the existing modules without writing any code. But, if you need a particular module, you can
write it by yourself and add it to your project. You can also propose it to the community.

Kalliope can run on all Linux distribution including a Raspberry Pi and it's multi-lang. The only thing you need is a microphone.

Kalliope is easy-peasy to use, see the hello world
```
  - name: "Hello world"
    neurons:      
      - say:
          message: "Hello world!"
    signals:
      - order: "say hello"
```


## Installation

- [Automated installation](Docs/automated_install.md)
- [Manual installation for developement](Docs/dev_env_install.md)

## Usage

- [Configure default settings](Docs/settings.md)
- [Create the brain of your Kalliope](Docs/brain.md)
- [Run Kalliope with CLI](Docs/kalliope_cli.md)

## Neurons

A neuron is a plugin that can be used from your **brain.yml**. 

- See the list of [available neurons](Docs/neuron_list.md).
- See how to [create your own neuron](Docs/contributing.md).


## Contributing

If you'd like to contribute to Kalliope, please read our [Contributing Guide](Docs/contributing.md), which contains the philosophies to preserve, tests to run, and more. 
Reading through this guide before writing any code is recommended.

- Contribute
- Add [issues and feature requests](../../issues)

## Credits

> **Meaning of Kalliope** Kalliope means "beautiful voice" from Greek καλλος (kallos) "beauty" and οψ (ops) "voice". 
In Greek mythology she was a goddess of epic poetry and eloquence, one of the nine Muses.
PRONOUNCED: kə-LIE-ə-pee (English) 
PRONOUNCED: Ka-li-o-pé (French)

## License

Copyright (c) 2016. All rights reserved.

Kalliope is covered by the MIT license, a permissive free software license that lets you do anything you want with the source code, 
as long as you provide back attribution and ["don't hold you liable"](http://choosealicense.com/). For the full license text see the [LICENSE.md](LICENSE.md) file.