rodingeek / speak-with-eliza

Talk with Eliza psychotherapist with voice recognition via Google Speech API

Speak With Eliza

Talk with Eliza psychotherapist bot using speech recognition via Google Speech API and the default text to speech on your computer. This is just a demonstration of an AI being simplified two 4 Node.js modules.

Your voice --> mic-to-speech --> google-speech-from-buffer --> eliza-as-pomised --> say --> your ears --> repeat

Installation Mac

Audio recorder: brew install sox

Installation Linux/Raspberry Pi

sudo apt-get install sox libsox-fmt-all

How to run

Set your google service key and project environment variables. ( https://console.cloud.google.com/apis/credentials )

export GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=[Path to service account key json file]

Start your therapy session

npm install
npm start

For a detailed walk through of how this works read this blog post: http://www.natelewis.net/2017/08/speech-enabled-ai-conversations-with.html