Real-time instant messaging system featuring text-to-speech and voice recognition (where available). Built with Node JS and web sockets.

Demo

Node js

1. Clone the repo into a folder.
2. Open a terminal and cd to blabber/.
3. Get Node dependencies by running: npm install
4. Get front end dependencies by running bower install
5. Build project by running grunt
6. Marvelous.

node blabber.js -p 80

Note: You might need to run Blabber as root in order to use a port number below 1024, i.e. 80.

Type node blabber.js --help for available flags.

You can use Forever to keep your process running:

sudo forever start blabber.js

Point a web browser at http://localhost:80