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Installation

To use the package, install it from PyPI, for instance using pip (pip install biochatter) or Poetry (poetry add biochatter).

Extras

The package has some optional dependencies that can be installed using the following extras (e.g. pip install biochatter[xinference]):

  • xinference: support for querying open-source LLMs through Xorbits Inference

  • ollama: support for querying open-source LLMs through Ollama

  • podcast: support for podcast text-to-speech (for the free Google TTS; the paid OpenAI TTS can be used without this extra)

  • streamlit: support for streamlit UI functions (used in BioChatter Light)