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Creating a helpful discord bot with AI

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AI solves all of our problems. I made a discord bot that solves some of mine.

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I’m trying to do a weekly version of SHIPPED, basically me shipping something, small or big, every week. In this version of SHIPPED, I made a discord bot that kinda helps me get more organised and the startup I work in, more productive.

The problem

Working in startups and small teams on discord, I often found myself in the situation where I had to take notes during a meeting. So, why not use an AI note taker? This is possible on google meet and other services using otter.ai, fireflies.ai and other services. But there’s nothing for discord.

Plus, all these services are paid and costly. This is a free and open source alternative.

Notes

  • When talking in the voice channel, some people are together in real life and talk through one user only. Bot should be able to detect that.
  • Bot should be able to summarise the meeting and send it to the channel as a properly formatted transcript
  • Bot should give punctuated, grammatically correct sentences
  • Bot should be able to assign tasks to multiple users by knowing their discord user ID

The solution

I made a simple discord bot using Deepgram, Pycord and Anyscale. The bot listens to the voice channel and transcribes the audio in real time. It then sends the transcript to the channel and also saves it in a database. The transcript is then summarised using anyscale’s mistral endpoints, using functions calling (anyscale has support for that) and then sent to the channel.

The code

The code is open source and available on GitHub. Feel free to contribute to it.