ChatGPT Voice Assistant

A simple interface to the OpenAI ChatGPT model with speech to text for input and text to speech for the output.

Setup

Optionally create a new Python environment and active it:

# create a new environment in the current directory called env
python3 -m venv env

# activate the environment
source env/bin/activate

Install dependencies:

# Mac OSX
brew install portaudio
brew link portaudio

# save the output of this command
brew --prefix portaudio

Run:

sudo vi $HOME/.pydistutils.cfg

and paste the following text replacing the values with the output saved from above:

[build_ext]
include_dirs=<PATH FROM STEP 3>/include/
library_dirs=<PATH FROM STEP 3>/lib/

Finally, run the following to install all required Python packages and the chatgpt_voice_assistant package in editable mode:

pip install -e .

To install the bash command chatgpt-assist, run pip install ..

Running the Script

# explicitly
python chatgpt_voice_assistant/main.py --log-level=INFO --open-ai-key=<OPEN API SECRET KEY HERE>

# with the installed bash command
chatgpt-assist --log-level=INFO --open-ai-key=<OPEN API SECRET KEY HERE>

Start speaking and turn up your volume to hear the AI assistant respond.

Say the word "exit" or hit Ctrl+C in your terminal to stop the application.

Optional: Specifying an Output Language Accent

Specify both the LANGUAGE and TOP_LEVEL_DOMAIN vars to override the default English (United States)

python chatgpt_voice_assistant/main.py --open-ai-key=<OPENAI_KEY> --lang=en --tld=com

Language Examples

English (United States) DEFAULT
- LANGUAGE=en TOP_LEVEL_DOMAIN=com
English (Australia)
- LANGUAGE=en TOP_LEVEL_DOMAIN=com.au
English (India)
- LANGUAGE=en TOP_LEVEL_DOMAIN=co.in
French (France)
- LANGUAGE=fr TOP_LEVEL_DOMAIN=fr

See Localized 'accents' section on gTTS docs for more information

References

SpeechRecognition library docs