Vision medical assistant is a virtual program which remind the users to take their medications on time. The name of the medication and time to consume it is entered by the user. Vision reminds it by displaying a notification and setting off an alarm. Apart from being a reminder for medications, it can also give prevention or health care tips about different conditions and diseases from trusted sources. It already has built in information about 5 common conditions namely, diabetes, covid-19, blood pressure, thyroid and arthritis.
Modules used and their installations are as follows:
1] pyttsx3: converts the given string into speech It can be installed by putting the following command into the command prompt: pip install pyttsx3
2] datetime: this module gives the local date and time in a string format. It can be installed by putting the following command into the command prompt: pip install datetime
3] webbrowser: this module can open new tabs or websites based on the command given and the site given in the string. It can be installed by putting the following command into the command prompt: pip install webbrowser
4] playsound: this module will play music from the given location in the device when triggered. It can be installed by putting the following command into the command prompt: pip install playsound
5] plyer: it is the module used to access data from the hardware. It can be installed by putting the following command into the command prompt: pip install plyer
Package/Module Used In The Project
Functions used in making of this program are as follows:
1] speak(): it is a self defined function which will directly convert the given string into speech.
2] datetime.datetime.now(): gives the local time in a string format.
3] str.lower(): will convert the input into lowercase.
4] webbrowser.open(): will open the given website in an already existing tab or a new tab if no tab is open.
5] webbrowser.open.new_tab(): opens the given website in a new tab irrespective of already open tabs.
6] playsound(): will play the sound from the given location when triggered.