Coding Jarvis in Python in 2016

It's tough for an erstwhile Iron Man to work on creating their personal AI assistant on the weekends. Like any other time-pressured inventor without a PhD in computer science and linguistics, I decided to use a library for speech recognition and synthesis. Fortunately, Python offers several choices. I will discuss the ones that are still functional and can be used with Python 2.7 and Python 3 (up to Python 3.5 at the time of writing). We've all heard of Google's AI initiatives (maybe Larry Page aspires to Tony Stark status?), so it should come as little surprise that they offer a RESTful way to do voice recognition and speech synthesis.