Live PD

A Telegram bot that uses OpenAI's Whisper AI to transcribe live Police, Fire, EMS, Aviation, and Rail radio broadcasts from Broadcastify streams, delivering real-time updates to subscribers.

Installation

Begin by cloning the repository to your local machine:

git clone https://github.com/chrismuntean/Live-PD.git

Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: You may want to do this inside of a Python virtual environment

Configure environment variables

The .env file for this repository is structured as:

BOT_TOKEN=YOUR_TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN
STREAM_URL=https://broadcastify.cdnstream1.com/12145
STREAM_TITLE=Phoenix PD

How to get your own Telegram bot

See Telegram's tutorial on how to get your bot setup on their website here

How to get a Broadcastify stream URL

Find the stream you would like subscriber's to recieve updates for on Brodcastify's website here. Then use developer tools to find the raw stream broadcast URL under the network tab.

Run the bot

python main.py

Bot Screenshots

How it works

Live PD uses a Broadcastify audio stream to transcribe the transmissions with OpenAI's Whisper transcription AI model in 15 second chunks. It then sends these transciptions using Telegram's API to a bot for alerts to anyone who subscribes.