Voicebot

Voice bot is a chabot designed to handle voice notes on messaging apps. You can forward a voice note to voicebot and it will respond sending a sped up version of it, saving precious minutes.

Development

Environment

In order to develop Voice bot you will need to provide your own Twilio credentials (SID and TOKEN). This can be done by placing a .env file in the repo root directory with the following contents:

TWILIO_SID="<YOUR TWILIO SID>"
TWILIO_TOKEN="<YOUR TWILIO TOKEN>"
SERVER_IP="<YOUR IP ADDRESS>"
SERVER_PORT="8080"

You can find your Twilio SID and TOKEN in the Twilio Console.

Local setup

After setting up the .env file, you can start the chatbot, running at http://localhost:8080, with the following command:

$> sudo docker-compose up

Building chatbot_bot_1 ... done
...
Starting chatbot_bot_1 ... done
Attaching to chatbot_bot_1
bot_1  |  * Serving Flask app "bot" (lazy loading)
bot_1  |  * Environment: production
bot_1  |    WARNING: This is a development server. Do not use it in a production deployment.
bot_1  |    Use a production WSGI server instead.
bot_1  |  * Debug mode: off
bot_1  |  * Running on http://0.0.0.0:8080/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)

To expose your local server to a public url you can download ngrok and run it with:

$> ngrok http 8080

ngrok by @inconshreveable
(Ctrl+C to quit)

Session Status                online
Session Expires               7 hours, 59 minutes
Version                       2.3.35
Region                        United States (us)
Web Interface                 http://127.0.0.1:4040
Forwarding                    http://<your_unique_id>.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:8080
Forwarding                    https://<your_unique_id>.ngrok.io -> http://localhost:8080


Connections                   ttl     opn     rt1     rt5     p50     p90
                              0       0       0.00    0.00    0.00    0.00

Now you can copy the server's address to the Twilio dashboard.

On the dashboard navigate to

All products and services
    -> Programmable messaging
        -> Whatsapp Sanbox Settings

and paste your server's public url (http://<your_unique_id>.ngrok.io/bot) to the text box.

Now your should see your local server respond to HTTP POST requests any time you send a whastapp message.

Deployment

Voice bot can be run in the background with docker-compose up -d