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Custom Robot Question?

Custom Robot Question?

Hello everyone! : ) This is my first post here. I don't even know if this is the correct forum to be posting my question but I will do my best here. First off, I can't even...
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Mike Voice Not Working In Speech Synthesis Settings

I have the Mike voice In my Audio, when I click on speech synthesis settings, I see the Mike selection, but it comes out I hear a voice of a girl. Any fixes for this?
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Creating Custom Voice

I am trying to create a custom voice for "Tin Man" my robot. Since there seems to be no way to really efficiently add third party voice to my windows pc I think i came up with a way to do this. If I create a audio mp3 with the voice I create on third party software then write that mp3 into code when I want my computer to say something....
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Anyone Hear Of The Tof10120 Distance Sensor ?

Semoic Range Sensor Module 10-180Cm Distance Sensor Tof10120 Distance Sensor anyone heard of this? Here is the info on this unit: https://dronebotworkshop.com/laser-vs-ultrasonic-distance-sensor-tests/
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Suggestion For Another Night...Like Hack Night?

I know time is money and you all have alot of gears turning there at Synthiam, but  have a suggestion since the platform is still developing. I'm not sure how many others feel the same as me...but I would love a live Q and A  stream, like a hack night but just answering questions about controls and scripting and anything ARC and hardware related....
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Soundboard Control

I am wanting to play audio files via the ARC Mobile App on my Tablet - not PC and not through the iOTiny. There doesn't seem to be any way of doing this. I tried utilising the SoundboardPC control and although this worked on the PC, it had no affect when used on my Tablet - audio went to the iOTiny, ignoring the SoundPC control used in the scripts....
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Voice Recognition And Usb Camera On Raspberry Pi 4 With ARC?

Hello all, I just got a Pi 4 and I have not had time to mess around , but I did want to ask about a couple features as I know things have really improved over the past year. Does ARC recognize a  usb camera on the pi? Also does voice synthesis and recognition work? Thank You everyone! - Josh
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Holidays Are Coming.

Doing my shopping now. Trying to keep aside some money for any new Synthiam announcements. Might anything interesting be coming up? If not from you but a particular product that you are about to offer support for. Love to have something to start working with over the break.
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Arduino Uno With A Ultrasound Sensor - ARC Control

I can’t seem to get hc-sr04 to function with above. I got servos working but this seems to hang- any thoughts thnx guys? Error message - Capability ultrasonic Ping distance sensor support’ is not supported on this EZ-B device.
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Measure Distance From Camera

Hi everyone, I know that EZ camera will can do it but let me ask: it can measure distance from existing plugins on the web right now. I want to use it to measure the distance of the mouth, when opening the mouth, the distance is large and the robot will scoop food for you?. I plan to make this idea for people with parkinson.   Thank you very...
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Wii Remote And Arduino

does a wii remote work with the Arduino? I would like to know is anyone made it work
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Arduino Question

Does the Arduino uno have to remain connected to usb windows pc to work sensors etc? Can the ARC work without usb wire connected to Arduino eg through WiFi etc how would it work