This is a simple Telegram bot which takes voice clips and responds with the transcription. Meant to be my personal pensieve-bot.

The ASR model exploration can be found in this STT-exploratory gist and in particular this implementation is based on OpenAI's whisper model

The bot integration uses pyTelegramBotAPI

• Pensieve Bot
  • ToC
  • How To
    • Install
    • Run

NOTE: It is recommended to create a virtual env with python 3.8+

pip install -r requirements.txt

First create a .env file with the following values:

VALID_SENDER_IDS="sender_id_1,sender_id_2,..."  # telegram user IDs to which the bot replies
BOT_TOKEN="your-bot-token"  # Telgram bot token (from BotFather)

The run with:

# Run the bot with the 'small' whisper model
python -m src.run -m small -v INFO