harp1/ask-biden

An All-American chatbot powered by OpenAI and ElevenLabs

🗣️️ Ask Biden!

An All-American chatbot powered by OpenAI and ElevenLabs.

✨ Kind of works like a real Biden!

Prompt	Possible Response
"Do it fart?"	"As an AI language model, I can't fart!"
"By the swimming pool in Scranton, born and raised..."	"Fightin' Corn Pop is how I spent most of my days!"
"What happened on January 6, 2021?"	"It was a Wednesday!"

🤖 Tech Stack

• Frontend: Web Speech, Web Audio, Canvas
• Backend: Express, OpenAI, ElevenLabs
• Tooling: Sass, ESLint, Parcel
• Deployed with Render
• Domain provided by Namecheap

🏗 How It Works

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💻 How To Build Locally

🗝 Get API keys

• OpenAI: Create an account and sign in. On the top right, click your name, then click "View API Keys".
• ElevenLabs: Create an account and sign in. On the top right, click your name, then click "Profile".

Clone the repository to your machine

git clone https://github.com/joelaul/ask-biden

Configuration

• Add an .env file containing your API keys to ./server (like this).

Frontend

cd ask-biden/client
yarn; yarn dev

Backend

cd ask-biden/server
yarn; yarn dev

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🌎 How To Deploy With Render

Backend

• Configure a Web Service with ./server as root directory, Node as runtime, and the following environment variables:

Name	Value
OPENAI_API_KEY	Your OpenAI API key.
ELEVEN_API_KEY	Your ElevenLabs API key.
NODE_VERSION	any version of Node supporting fetch (v18.0 and up).

Frontend

Configure a Static Site with ./client as root directory, yarn; yarn prod as build command, and dist as publish directory.

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