ryandougc / discord_voice_search

Search the web with your voice within a discord voice channel and have the results broadcast for everyone to hear

Discord Voice Search

The vision is to have discord implement a voice search feature into their voice channels so that players can simply ask discord a question about the game they are currently playing and have the results broadcast into the voice channel that they are in.

Contribution

Any way you can think of. If you know Node JS, text-to-speech, speech-to-text, or even just want to talk about the project, anything is welcomed. Please feel free to reach out to me.

This project is in the very early stages of life. So far, it has very rudimentary functionality and there is no voice implementation yet. I am fairly new to the world of programming and this is the first oepn source project that I have worked on, let alone launched. This project is definitely out of the scope of my knowledge. I am slowly learning more and more and building what I can in the easiest way possible so that a working prototype can be released but I am making this open source to start a conversation with other people who may be passionate in the vision that I see for the future of gaming where your voice can be leveraged to make the gaming experience better for everyone.

The Vision

To simplify the process of getting information about a game without the hassle of alt + tabbing and manually searching.

As for why discord should genuinely consider adding this feature to discord, this would mean that discord could become a much bigger part of gaming than just a means of communication with friends. With this feature, people playing singleplayer games will especially want to stay in a voice channel to gain acccess to this feature, meaning more people will use discord and its features like streaming and potentially pay for their premium services.

Installation

Universal Project Installation:

1. Download the ZIP file and unzip
2. Open VSCode
3. Open a New Terminal within VSCode and enter npm install
4. Create a discord bot
5. Duplicate file "sample_config.json" and rename it to "config.json"
6. Add your bot token in the new config.json fill
7. In the terminal, enter npm run devStart

Usage

Currently, searching is only available through text in a discord channel with the bot added. Type !search <search parameters> and replace "" with what you want to search in google

Currently, the bot uses a headless chromium browser from pupeteer to search google and return the text in google's featured snippets box.

Current Todos

• Implement Test Driven Development
• Create audio files for the text-to-speech of the google quick results
• Play the audio files automatically within a voice channel in discord
• Convert a voice command into text from within a discord voice channel

Authors

• Ryan - Initial Dev

License

GNU General Public License v3.0

discord_voice_search's Issues

Bot responds the voice command

Make the bot respond with a message when a certain voice command is said outloud

Bot enters chat when a user does

When a voice channel goes from zero users to having 1 user, add the bot so that it can begin listening for a keyword to search

Bot sending message calls message event

User speech-to-text results to search

Convert any text into speech

Manually enter text into a function to convert it to speech in an audio file

Cannot read property 'join' of null

When a user sends a text search message but isn't in a VC, the bot doesn't know what VC to join

Make text-to-speech audio files temporary

Delete the text-to-speech audio files after a certain amount of time

Idea

We could have it save the audio file until 2 more searches have been made so that the users can recall searches and have the bot repeat past recent searches again