Convobot

Inspiration

This discord bot was inspired by the many useful chat bots that came before. We wanted to make this bot unique and what better way to do that than to make it talk.

What it does

This bot can be used in discord servers to provide useful information about the Coronavirus. It is able to do so by just talking to it.

How I built it

The bot is built almost entirely on JavaScript and node.js. We used the discord.js api to implement the bot on discord. The Google Cloud speech and text processing apis were used to make the bot understand speech and in return, speak back. Google's Dialogflow CX was used to allow the bot to inform the speaker about various information about the Coronavirus when asked.

Challenges I ran into

The hardest part of this project was getting the many apis to interface together. The majority of the time was spent on getting the discord bot to receive audio and understand it.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I am proud of getting the discord bot up and running in such a short amount of time.

What I learned

I am happy I learned JavaScript this Hackathon as it seems like a very useful tool and a language I will have use for in the future.

What's next for Convobot

The next step is to implement webhooks and allow convobot to have limitless amounts of information using the internet.

Built With

• discord.js
• google-cloud
• node.js