Mental Health Support ChatBot 🤖💙

A compassionate AI assistant that provides mental health support by analyzing user emotions, generating empathetic responses using Google's Gemini API, and offering audio feedback via text-to-speech.

Features ✨

• Sentiment Analysis: Detects positive/negative/neutral sentiment using TextBlob
• Emotion Recognition: Identifies 7 emotions (anger, joy, sadness, etc.) using Hugging Face models
• AI-Powered Responses: Generates compassionate responses using Gemini 1.5 Flash
• Text-to-Speech: Converts AI responses to audio using gTTS (Google Text-to-Speech)
• Data Visualization: Creates pie charts for sentiment and emotion distributions
• Rate Limit Handling: Automatic retries for API rate limiting (429 errors)

Tech Stack 🛠️

Component	Technology
AI Models	Gemini 1.5 Flash, DistilRoBERTa
NLP Libraries	TextBlob, Transformers
Text-to-Speech	gTTS (Google Text-to-Speech)
Visualization	Matplotlib
API Handling	Google Generative AI SDK

Installation 📦

# Install required packages
!pip install -q google-generativeai
!pip install textblob 
!pip install transformers torch
!pip install gTTS  # Text-to-speech functionality
!pip install playsound  # Audio playback

# Download TextBlob corpora
!python -m textblob.download_corpora