telegram.voice_echo_bot

Example of usage Yandex SpeechKit Cloud with pyTelegramBotAPI library. You send a voice message to Telegrambot bot, and bot sends you the text of this message in reply.

Requirements

• Python 2.7. If it don't installed, please download and install.
• Telegram Bot API Access Token and username of your bot. To generate an Access Token, you have to talk to @BotFather and follow a few simple steps (described here).
• Yandex SpeechKit Cloud API key. To obtain an API key, you need to register at SpeechKit Cloud

Installing

Download source and unpack to telegram.voice_echo_bot directory. Or

git clone https://github.com/vb64/telegram.voice_echo_bot

Then

cd telegram.voice_echo_bot
sudo python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Then edit source/settings.py and put your Telegram Bot API Access Token to the TELEGRAM_KEY key:

TELEGRAM_KEY = 'YOUR_BOT_TOKEN_HERE'

Put your Yandex SpeechKit Cloud API key to the YANDEX_KEY key:

YANDEX_KEY = 'YOUR_SpeechKit_Cloud_KEY_HERE'

In source/settings.py file you can also set up:

• maximum voice message duration in seconds (MAX_MESSAGE_DURATION key)
• maximum voice message size in bytes (MAX_MESSAGE_SIZE key)
• language for voice recognition. English, Russian, Ukraine and Turkey are supported. (VOICE_LANGUAGE key)

Save source/settings.py file to complete installation.

Usage

python source/voice_echo.py

Your bot starts. Now you can talk with bot in any Telegram client. Type in search field of Telegram client an username of your bot and start conversation. Username of the bot it's a string, that you specified when talking with Telegram BotFather.

To stop your bot, press Ctrl+C.