This is a Telegram bot that lets users chat with ChatGPT through Telegram. Both written and voice messages are supported. The bot will always transcribe voice messages to text first (and send it back as reference) and also respond through both text and voice. Hence, maximum flexibility of use-cases ia guaranteed.

• Linux Distro
• python3 with the following modules:
  • aiogram
  • openai
• ffmpeg
• Speech-to-text (STT)
  • whisper.cpp (with a model)
• Text to speech (TTS) (configurable)
  • gTTS (gtts-cli)
  • Coqui TTS (https://docs.coqui.ai/en/latest/docker_images.html)

• OpenAI API key (https://platform.openai.com/docs/quickstart)
• Telegram bot API key (https://core.telegram.org/bots/tutorial)

The following environment variables need to be set:

• OPENAI_API_KEY
• TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN

For testing, simply run main.py

For productive use, install the telegram-bot-voicegpt.service systemd unit file.