Welcome to Navi framework’s documentation!¶

Navi is an open and free high-level framework that aims to make building smart chatbots and personal assistants easy, friction-less and fun.

In general terms, think about how awesome would it if you could build your own Siri, Alexa or Google Assistant in a free, open and controlled-by-you way. Navi integrates all necessary services into a consistent and fluid architecture to help you reach that goal.

Currently, Navi is compatible with Python 2.7, but support for Python > 3 is planned.

Guiding Principles¶

Fun. Working with the Navi framework should be a fun experience. It should make the design of a smart assistant easy to do, to test and to understand and explain
User friendly. Navi is designed to get you from idea to prototype fast by offering consistent, coeherent and well-documented API’s
Modular. Bots and assistants created with Navi should be easily shareable in parts or wholes. This way developers can build a community and grow together
Extensible Integrating new messaging and conversational platforms to Navi should be an easy task and done constantly.

Install¶

To install only the core of navi, use:

pip install navi

But the best part of navi lies within its service extensions, we currently support Telegram Messaging; Snowboy Hotword Detection; Wit.ai Natural Language Processing; and Speech Recognition services from many providers. Install the required dependencies for each by including the name of your desired extension with the install command, like so:

pip install navi[SpeechRecognition, HotwordDetection, Telegram, Wit]

5min Starting Guides¶

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