# studypal

### Have a conversation about any article on the web

studypal is a fast conversational AI built using [Daily](https://www.daily.co/) for real-time media transport and [Cartesia](https://cartesia.ai) for text-to-speech. Everything is orchestrated together (VAD -> STT -> LLM -> TTS) using [Pipecat](https://www.pipecat.ai/).

## Setup

1. Clone the repository
2. Copy `env.example` to a `.env` file and add API keys
3. Install the required packages: `pip install -r requirements.txt`
4. Run `python3 studypal.py` from your command line.
5. While the app is running, go to the `https://<yourdomain>.daily.co/<room_url>` set in `DAILY_SAMPLE_ROOM_URL` and talk to studypal!