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baibot
🤖 baibot is an AI (Large Language Model) bot for Matrix built by etke.cc (managed Matrix servers).
The name is pronounced 'bye'-bot and is a play on AI, referencing the fictional character 🇧🇬 Bai Ganyo.
It's designed as a more private and featureful alternative to matrix-chatgpt-bot. It's influenced by chaz, but does not use the AIChat CLI tool and instead does everything in-process, without forking.
🌟 Features
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🎨 Encourages provider choice (Anthropic, Groq, LocalAI, OpenAI and ☁️ many more) as well as mixing & matching models:
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Supports different use purposes (depending on the ☁️ provider & model):
- 💬 text-generation: communicating with you via text (though certain models may "see" images as well). The OpenAI provider also supports 🛠️ built-in tools (web search, code interpreter)
- 🦻 speech-to-text: turning your voice messages into text
- 🗣️ text-to-speech: turning bot or users text messages into voice messages
- 🖌️ image-generation: creating and editing images based on instructions
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🪄 Supports seamless voice interaction (turning user voice messages into text, answering in text, then turning that text back into voice)
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🦻 Supports transcribe-only mode (turning user voice messages into text, without doing text-generation)
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🗣️ Supports text-to-speech-only mode (turning user text messages into voice, without doing text-generation)
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🔒 Supports encryption for Matrix communication and Account-Data-stored configuration
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♻️ Supports context-management handling on some models (automatically adjusting the message history length, etc.)
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🛠️ Allows customizing much of the bot's configuration at runtime (using commands sent via chat)
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👥 Actively maintained by the team at etke.cc
🖼️ Screenshots
You can find more screenshots on the 🌟 Features and other 📚 Documentation pages, as well as in the docs/screenshots directory.
🚀 Getting Started
🗲 For a quick experiment, you can refer to the 🧑💻 development documentation which contains information on how to build and run the bot (and its various dependency services) locally.
For a real installation, see the 🚀 Installation documentation which contains information on 🐋 Running in a container and 🖥️️️️️ Running a binary.
📚 Documentation
See the bot's 📚 documentation for more information on how to use and configure the bot.
💻 Development
See the bot's 🧑💻 development documentation for more information on how to develop on the bot.
📜 Changes
This bot evolves over time, sometimes with backward-incompatible changes.
When updating the bot, refer to the changelog to catch up with what's new.
🆘 Support
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Matrix room: #baibot:etke.cc
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GitHub issues: etkecc/baibot/issues