/talking_avatar_backend

Simple ExpressJS backend for talking avatars

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Talking Avatar backend

The text to speech and blendShapes converter for https://github.com/bornfree/talking_avatar. Uses the Azure APIs to get stuff done.

This is a simple ExpressJS app.

Set up the environment variables.

Copy/rename the .env.template file to .env file. And enter the keys provided for all the variables. Which include:

Get keys from Azure

AZURE_KEY=<enter the value>
AZURE_REGION=<enter the value>

OpenAI key

OPEN_AI_API_KEY=<enter the value>


### To run
1- Install docker on the system (search internet).
2- While in the project directory, build image

```shell
docker build -t avatar_backend .

3- Run docker

docker run -p 5001:5001 avatar_backend