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Has anyone seen or heard of any hacks to the echo yet? Currently, I have my "personal assistant, Antonn" using Alexa. Key voice commands by him operate her when she can perform better than he can. My goal is a future Alexa voice change to male. I have seen some voice changes done on You Tube but they are beyond my skill level.

Has anyone heard of a voice service offering an Alexa's voice?

I think Alexa will be a great incorporation with an EZ-B in the future. Any opinions?

Ron


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Hi Steve! Hope all is well and you're doing good. Thought I'd post this vid about Josh:

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@ Steve S,

Thanks for the post with the info. I will also contact them. maybe if enough of us make the request for the voice change they may set it higher on their list.

Hi Dave, Thanks for the info on Josh AI. It is also a way to go. I am going to try using some of the features Alexa has to see if I can get conversational responses.

I am working on my Alexa project and hope to post the pictures then a video in the next few days.

Ron

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Hi, I was just looking at reviews and saw that it cost 10,000 for Joah.ai . Maybe this was an old page but I think 10,000 dollars is a little expensive. The system seems to work well. Let me know if the cost has changed and is it available now.

Ellis

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Just a quick update. I took apart my test unit (AGAIN) and added jaw movement. My goal is to get this working with my EZ-B which will control the eyes and neck. I used a scary terry board to drive the jaw from the Dot. I will try to also input from the EZB to the scary terry board have the jaw move with the canned script text to speech.

Ron

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Dave, Doing ok, thank you. Enjoyed B9 arm videos. Ron, Thank you for sharing your project with Alexa, and starting this thread. Here is another option, a Sabrent USB audio card allows Alexa input directly into ARC. The input moves two mouth servos on my robot using Sound servo PC Speaker. The output can be sent to an amplified speaker, because my robot is noisy. Simple text Say("") commands also work with this setup, because all audio triggers the Sound servo PC Speaker. The Sabrent USB audio input becomes your microphone, so I must remove it to use my default laptop microphone for VR. I will try to do a video update soon. It would be great to have some custom Alexa responses for our robots. Steve S

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Hi Steve, Elvia is quite the lady ! I really like the skin movement reality.

I messed with IFTTT to see what can be done to trigger the Echo Dot. The trigger is no problem, there doesn't seem to be any text to speech (Alexa Voice, which I am sure is locked (copyright?) at this time or an optional voice) available (YET). I hope it gets developed. Once developed and opened up we will have the whole thing.

Meanwhile my Antonn project asks "Alexa".

Ron

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