telegram-azure-transcribe-bot/README.md

telegram-azure-transcribe-bot

Simple Telegram bot to transcribe voice messages sent to it via Azure speech-to-text.

Requires libraries:

• python-telegram-bot[job-queue]
• python-dotenv
• azure-cognitiveservices-speech
• pydub

Requires installed:

• dotnet
• ffmpeg

Configure .env file with the following:

• TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN: Token provided by botfather
• TELEGRAM_BOT_ALLOWED_CHAT_IDS: optional comma-separated list of chat IDs that may use this bot
• SPEECH_KEY: speech key from Azure speech service
• SPEECH_REGION: region from Azure speech servce
• LOG_LEVEL: optional, use strings from Python 'logging' such as INFO, WARN, DEBUG, ERROR