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Ilya Nevolin
Ilya Nevolin

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Work on Open Source projects to stand out in 2024

Happy new year everyone!

I thought of sharing something cool and fun with my fellow coders. A few years ago I created a speech-to-text bot for Discord,, initially designed to control my own music bot (at the time), but then people started using it to communicate better with their deaf gaming friends in real-time.

This is the project: https://github.com/inevolin/DiscordEarsBot (the music bot is in another repo which needs a big update). The STT methods include offline and online APIs, so you get to choose the quality/performance you want. But with the rise in AI and ML jobs, this can serve as a great framework to build projects to stand out in your interviews:

  • Use this technology in another tool (Slack, Zoom, phone, browser, ...)
  • Use this technology to build voice-based games (maybe for handicapped kids)
  • Improve the STT results by adding another ML model to correct the text
  • Create a fun bot that "talks back" or tells jokes based on the conversation

If you want to collaborate on a project, post in the comments below and match up with other people!

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