ChatGPT Voice-Powered Chatbot Build with React and FastAPI

About this course

Updated in May 2025. This course now features Coursera Coach! A smarter way to learn with interactive, real-time conversations that help you test your knowledge, challenge assumptions, and deepen your understanding as you progress through the course. This course helps you harness ChatGPT to create a lifelike voice assistant or sales chatbot fluent in any language, showcasing Eleven Labs and ChatGPT AI technology. - You’ll set up your development environment, learn web development basics, and create a simple UI. The course dives into backend development, AI integration, and building core chatbot functionality. - You'll integrate ChatGPT for smooth conversational flow, build the frontend with audio capabilities, and explore prompt engineering and use cases. - You'll learn to create realistic chatbots with various personas, implement ChatGPT and Eleven Labs AI, and understand full-stack development with React and FastAPI. By course end, you'll build a fully functional voice assistant or sales chatbot, gaining web development, AI, and tech integration experience. Ideal for developers with JavaScript and React knowledge, the course assumes familiarity with front-end and back-end development, REST APIs, and HTTP requests.

Course objectives

• teach participants web development basics
• provide hands-on experience with backend development
• facilitate learning of core chatbot functionalities using AI