Speaking Events

Speaking Events

Now that we've got our functions working and we can retrieve events from any specific date it's time for the assistant to speak them out. To do this we are going to modify the get_events() function so that instead of printing out the events we will speak them.

def get_events(day, service):
    date = datetime.datetime.combine(day, datetime.datetime.min.time())
    end_date = datetime.datetime.combine(day, datetime.datetime.max.time())
    utc = pytz.UTC
    date = date.astimezone(utc)
    end_date = end_date.astimezone(utc)

    events_result = service.events().list(calendarId='primary', timeMin=date.isoformat(), timeMax=end_date.isoformat(),
                                        singleEvents=True,
                                        orderBy='startTime').execute()
    events = events_result.get('items', [])
    
    # NEW STUFF STARTS HERE
    if not events:
        speak('No upcoming events found.')
    else:
        speak(f"You have {len(events)} events on this day.")

        for event in events:
            start = event['start'].get('dateTime', event['start'].get('date'))
            print(start, event['summary'])
            start_time = str(start.split("T")[1].split("-")[0])  # get the hour the event starts
            if int(start_time.split(":")[0]) < 12:  # if the event is in the morning
                start_time = start_time + "am"
            else:
                start_time = str(int(start_time.split(":")[0])-12)  # convert 24 hour time to regular
                start_time = start_time + "pm"  

            speak(event["summary"] + " at " + start_time)

Now when we call the get_events() function it will speak the events we have that day out in chronological order. It will say both the event and the time they start at.

Calling get_events()

Now that we have everything functioning it's time to determine how/when to use the function get_events(). It only makes sense to call it if what we are asking the assistant relates to our calendar. What we are going to do is create a list of phrases that when detected will trigger the call to get_events(). For the purpose of this tutorial I have kept the list short but you may add/remove as many phrases as you'd like.

CALENDAR_STRS = ["what do i have", "do i have plans", "am i busy"]

Now we will loop through all the phrases, see if any exist in what we said to the assistant and act accordingly.

for phrase in CALENDAR_STRS:
    if phrase in text.lower():
        date = get_date(text)
        if date:
            get_events(date, SERVICE)
        else:
            speak("Please Try Again")

Full Code

from __future__ import print_function
import datetime
import pickle
import os.path
from googleapiclient.discovery import build
from google_auth_oauthlib.flow import InstalledAppFlow
from google.auth.transport.requests import Request
import os
import time
import pyttsx3
import speech_recognition as sr
import pytz


SCOPES = ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/calendar.readonly']
MONTHS = ["january", "february", "march", "april", "may", "june","july", "august", "september","october","november", "december"]
DAYS = ["monday", "tuesday", "wednesday", "thursday", "friday", "saturday", "sunday"]
DAY_EXTENTIONS = ["rd", "th", "st", "nd"]

def speak(text):
    engine = pyttsx3.init()
    engine.say(text)
    engine.runAndWait()

def get_audio():
    r = sr.Recognizer()
    with sr.Microphone() as source:
        audio = r.listen(source)
        said = ""

        try:
            said = r.recognize_google(audio)
            print(said)
        except Exception as e:
            print("Exception: " + str(e))

    return said


def authenticate_google():
    creds = None
    if os.path.exists('token.pickle'):
        with open('token.pickle', 'rb') as token:
            creds = pickle.load(token)

    if not creds or not creds.valid:
        if creds and creds.expired and creds.refresh_token:
            creds.refresh(Request())
        else:
            flow = InstalledAppFlow.from_client_secrets_file(
                'credentials.json', SCOPES)
            creds = flow.run_local_server(port=0)

        with open('token.pickle', 'wb') as token:
            pickle.dump(creds, token)

    service = build('calendar', 'v3', credentials=creds)

    return service


def get_events(day, service):
    date = datetime.datetime.combine(day, datetime.datetime.min.time())
    end_date = datetime.datetime.combine(day, datetime.datetime.max.time())
    utc = pytz.UTC
    date = date.astimezone(utc)
    end_date = end_date.astimezone(utc)

    events_result = service.events().list(calendarId='primary', timeMin=date.isoformat(), timeMax=end_date.isoformat(),
                                        singleEvents=True,
                                        orderBy='startTime').execute()
    events = events_result.get('items', [])

    if not events:
        speak('No upcoming events found.')
    else:
        speak(f"You have {len(events)} events on this day.")

        for event in events:
            start = event['start'].get('dateTime', event['start'].get('date'))
            print(start, event['summary'])
            start_time = str(start.split("T")[1].split("-")[0])
            if int(start_time.split(":")[0]) < 12:
                start_time = start_time + "am"
            else:
                start_time = str(int(start_time.split(":")[0])-12)
                start_time = start_time + "pm"

            speak(event["summary"] + " at " + start_time)


def get_date(text):
    text = text.lower()
    today = datetime.date.today()

    if text.count("today") > 0:
        return today

    day = -1
    day_of_week = -1
    month = -1
    year = today.year

    for word in text.split():
        if word in MONTHS:
            month = MONTHS.index(word) + 1
        elif word in DAYS:
            day_of_week = DAYS.index(word)
        elif word.isdigit():
            day = int(word)
        else:
            for ext in DAY_EXTENTIONS:
                found = word.find(ext)
                if found > 0:
                    try:
                        day = int(word[:found])
                    except:
                        pass

    if month < today.month and month != -1:  
        year = year+1

    
    if month == -1 and day != -1:  
        if day < today.day:
            month = today.month + 1
        else:
            month = today.month

    
    if month == -1 and day == -1 and day_of_week != -1:
        current_day_of_week = today.weekday()
        dif = day_of_week - current_day_of_week

        if dif < 0:
            dif += 7
            if text.count("next") >= 1:
                dif += 7

        return today + datetime.timedelta(dif)

    if day != -1:  # FIXED FROM VIDEO
        return datetime.date(month=month, day=day, year=year)



SERVICE = authenticate_google()
print("Start")
text = get_audio()

CALENDAR_STRS = ["what do i have", "do i have plans", "am i busy"]
for phrase in CALENDAR_STRS:
    if phrase in text.lower():
        date = get_date(text)
        if date:
            get_events(date, SERVICE)
        else:
            speak("Please Try Again")