Speaking AI Chatbot

A lightweight desktop AI chatbot with built-in text-to-speech, built with Electron and JavaScript.

Features

• Conversational responses — keyword-matched reply dictionary covering greetings, jokes, AI questions, and more
• Text-to-speech — browser Speech Synthesis API; toggle ON/OFF at runtime
• Adjustable speech rate — 0.5× to 2.0× via slider
• Clean UI — chat bubbles, auto-scroll, Enter-to-send

Screenshots

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Tech Stack

Layer	Technology
Desktop shell	Electron 28
UI	HTML / CSS / Vanilla JS
Speech	Web Speech API (SpeechSynthesisUtterance)
Build	electron-builder

Run

Prerequisites

Node.js ≥ 18
npm install

Start

npm start

Build (Windows)

npm run build:win

Project Structure

AIChatbot/
├── main.js          # Electron main process
├── preload.js       # Context bridge
├── package.json
└── app/
    ├── index.html   # UI layout
    ├── renderer.js  # Chat logic + speech
    ├── style.css    # Styling
    └── icon.ico

Author

Dr. Mosab Hawarey

PhD, Geodetic & Photogrammetric Engineering (ITU) | MSc, Geomatics (Purdue) | MBA (Wales) | BSc, MSc (METU)

• GitHub: https://github.com/mhawarey
• Personal: https://hawarey.org/mosab
• ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7846-951X

License

MIT License