A Simple Question => A Complex Answer

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• The Article on Medium: Create your own AI voice assistant bot with Node.js using Google Bard
• A short video on YouTube on how it works.
• Demo Telegram channel: sqca_bot

A Telegram bot that answers your questions with a voice message.

A Simple Question => A Complex Answer

Prerequisites:

• Node.js 18.* or higher installed
• Python 3.* and pip installed
• FFmpeg installed

Installation:

• Create a new AWS IAM user, give it access to Polly.

• Create a new Telegram bot with @BotFather.

• Create a new Telegram channel and add the bot as an admin.

• Create a new MongoDB Atlas cluster and set up IP whitelist.

• Have a Google Bard account. In a browser open inspect element. __Secure-1PSID, __Secure-1PSIDTS cookie values from Application -> Cookies -> https://accounts.google.com

• Clone the repo and install dependencies:

git clone git@github.com:boolfalse/simple-question-complex-answer.git && cd simple-question-complex-answer/
npm install

• Install python dependencies (you may use pip3 instead of pip for your case):

pip install SpeechRecognition
pip install bardapi
pip install --upgrade GoogleBard

• Create a .env file in the root directory of the project and add the following:

# @BotFather token here
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN=""

# Usually it's "python3" or kind of "/usr/local/bin/python3.10"
PYTHON_EXEC_PATH="python3"

# Copy values and add it here respectively
GOOGLE_BARD_SECURE_1PSID=""
GOOGLE_BARD_SECURE_1PSIDTS=""

# AWS IAM user keys
AWS_ACCESS_KEY=""
AWS_SECRET_KEY=""

# MongoDB Atlas connection string
MONGODB_URI="mongodb+srv://<USER>:<PASSWORD>@cluster0.mzcsh.mongodb.net/<DB_NAME>?retryWrites=true&w=majority"

• Run the app:
  • Development:

  npm run dev

  • Production:

  npm run start

  • Command samples on production:

  # start
  forever start -c "npm run start" ./
  # list
  forever list
  # stop
  forever stop <pid>

TODOs:

• Add used resources to the "Resources" section
• Refactor codebase (middlewares)
• Logging/error-handling (file writing, Slack/Telegram notification)
• Modify DB for multiple sessions
• Add "/new" command with session management
• Add command to leave chat
• Add invitation functionality
• Add usage limit to non-invited users
• Queue messages to avoid any 3rd party APIs limitations
• Use messaging system (e.g. Kafka, RabbitMQ)

Resources:

• Telegram Bot API
• Non-official python package Google Bard API
• Python SDK/API for reverse engineered Google Bard
• Basics of creation of a similar project, but not the same
• Creating an IAM user in your AWS account
• Changing permissions for an IAM user
• Managing access keys for IAM users

Author:

• BoolFalse