Virtual Teacher

Attempt at creating a virtual assistant that can run locally and that could be used for learning various things, mostly languages as a first focus.

Currently the system uses:

• A large language model: Llama-3 8B
• A text-to-speech model: xtts_v2
• A speech-recognition model: whisper large-v3

Installation

First, install all the dependencies by running the following commands:

conda create python=3.10 --name="virtual-teacher" -y
conda activate virtual-teacher
pip install pip-tools
pip-compile requirements.in
pip install -r requirements.txt

Then, you can check the available languages by running:

python main.py --list-languages

Finally, choose a language (e.g. es for Spanish) and run the following command:

# If you do not want to use speech recognition
python main.py --language=es

# If you want to use speech recognition
python main.py --language=es --use-speech-recognition

Note: If you ever get an error when recording your voice, just try again. I've been experiencing some issues as well but it usually works the second time.