cosplaying_bunny
i had an idea during my last meal when i talked about my robots, people asked: what do they do?
me: well, i don't know really..
other ppl: interact with humans?
then the whole idea came up in my mind:
let's say there's a speech-to-text module, which types the text an user says, sending it over the internet to a talk bot (cleverbot for example).
then the bot returns it's text, making the ARC software look that text up and convert it into speech which goes over your speakers.
so basically it's this:
you talk to the robot > ARC converts it to text, sending it to cleverbot > cleverbot responds > ARC converts it to speech and plays it.
this would be so amazing to have for people who have an animatronics head.
it would be such a nice feature
tell me what you think~
ramon
You have the WaitForSpeech command which will hang there listening for the human to say something.
You save that as a variable.
You have EZ-Script look up a response to the phrase, if there is one.
You have the Say command to have the robot speak the response.
You have the Sound servo function in ARC which adjusts with sound (although I'm not too sure how it works as have only used it on a lamp so far).
I guess you mean for the mouth servos to move with the text, which I have seen somewhere I'm sure. It may be a bit more complex in the EZ-Script but it's certainly doable.
And, if the online database had an RSS feed, EZ-Script can already look that up too.
Or read from a local text file.
EZ-Script is really powerful. I've been looking for an easy with a few small challenges script to write, I may have just found it.
Since you can send a variable to cleverbot using the url http://www.cleverbot.com/?say=$command ($command being the variable) and cleverbot will reply I'm sure that can be received by ARC and converted back to voice.
Watch this space...
I have some ideas including the cleverbot or another similar thing called pandoras bot. I'm pretty confident I could write a script for having a conversation with the bot with intelligent responses. I'm at least going to have a go at it (it gives me something to do while I wait for parts for the Hearoid build)
I've just checked the Pandora Bots website again, I hadn't been there for a while and it's improved greatly. Basically, you can set up your robot's brain on there, have ARC httpget your questions/speech to the bot and receive back the answer (somehow).
It's based on ALICE I think, which is a pretty good AI for conversation.
However the first stumbling block is that the WaitForSpeech needs a phrase list... which makes it difficult as ideally I'd want anything to be heard not just the phrases listed in the script (and to list everything would be one heck of a huge script).
So, if it's not an action available, ARC needs to support the dictate function of SAPI or I need to come up with a phrase list.
This is even before checking that I can httpget to send the speech to pandora bot and httpget the response.
I'll have more time to look in to it tomorrow so before I start asking for new features in the software I'll check that they a) don't already exist and b) would be worthwhile.