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Melissa is a virtual assistant for OS X, Windows and Linux systems. She
currently uses Google Chrome's speech-to-text engine, OS X's say
command, Linux's espeak command or Ivona TTS along with some magical
scripting which makes her alive, developed by Tanay Pant <http://tanaypant.com>__ and a group of sorcerers. The Web UI for
Melissa has been designed by Nakul Saxena <http://nakulsaxena.in>__.
.. raw:: html
Check out our
wiki <https://github.com/Melissa-AI/Melissa-Core/wiki>__, where we
have installation and configuration instructions, usage guide as well as
relevant documentation.
Discussion and Support
If you face an issue or require support, please take a look through the
GitHub Issues, as you may find some useful advice there. If you are
still facing issues, feel free to create a post at our `Google Group
Forum <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/melissa-support--discussion-forum/>`__
describing the issue and the steps you have taken to debug it.
Licence
~~~~~~~
`The MIT License
(MIT) <https://github.com/Melissa-AI/Melissa-Core/blob/master/LICENSE.md>`__
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FAQs
A lovely virtual assistant for OS X, Windows and Linux systems.
We found that melissa demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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