https://github.com/plnech/musicologist

Music advice from a conversational interface powered by Algolia
https://github.com/plnech/musicologist

algolia apiai conversational conversational-agents conversational-bots conversational-interface conversational-ui instant-search instant-search-android instantsearch instantsearch-android music search-interface speech-recognition speech-to-text text-to-speech voice-assistant voice-commands voice-control voice-search

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Music advice from a conversational interface powered by Algolia

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/plnech/musicologist
• Owner: PLNech
• License: mit
• Created: 2017-06-22T20:45:14.000Z (about 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-06-06T09:49:24.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-13T04:07:17.152Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: algolia, apiai, conversational, conversational-agents, conversational-bots, conversational-interface, conversational-ui, instant-search, instant-search-android, instantsearch, instantsearch-android, music, search-interface, speech-recognition, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice-assistant, voice-commands, voice-control, voice-search
• Language: Kotlin
• Size: 558 KB
• Stars: 21
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
Musicologist is an Android app using Algolia to give music advice through conversation.

# [Presentation on Algolia's forum](https://discourse.algolia.com/t/the-musicologist-search-as-a-conversation/2928)

# Demo

[![Musicologist demo on YouTube](https://img.youtube.com/vi/n2UOctORN_M/0.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2UOctORN_M)

# Features

- Search for songs by artist or theme

- Voice input, voice output

- Rich search results UI

# Examples

- > Do you know songs by the rollin stun?

- > Any music released by Eminim?  

- > Do you know anything about love?

- > Did you hear songs by Zeppelin?

- > What do you know on California?



# Getting started

- Git clone or download the code

- Run `cd android && ./gradlew installDebug` to install the app on a connected device/emulator

# Architecture

- Mobile frontend in [`/android`](/android)

  - Speech to text using a [`SpeechRecognizer`](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/SpeechRecognizer.html)

  - Results displayed with **[InstantSearch Android](https://community.algolia.com/instantsearch-android/)**

  - Text to speech using the [TTS Engine](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/speech/tts/TextToSpeech.Engine.html)

- API.AI [agent](agent.zip) for NLU

- A [backend](https://github.com/PLNech/musicologist-backend/) connecting the agent to Algolia