chrismbirmingham / echobot

Chatbot through a basic web interface

echobot

Super simple voice chatbot through a basic web interface

Live/Local STT and TTS

Simple server with FastAPI
STT through the whisper model
TTS through coqui TTS
Artwork from DALLE

To run this project create a virtual environment by running the below commands.

mkdir [% NAME_OF_YOUR_DIRECTORY %]
cd [% NAME_OF_YOUR_DIRECTORY %]
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Make sure your virtual environment is activated and install the dependencies in the requirements.txt file inside.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Make sure you're in the directory with the main.py file and run the project in the development server.

uvicorn echobot:app --reload

Pull up a browser and go to your localhost, http://127.0.0.1:8000/.

Allow access to your microphone and start speaking. A transcript of your audio will appear in the browser.

Note the microphone noise threshold can be tuned by changing the rms_increase parameter in echobot.py