You do seem excited and obsessed. You're words. Obviously you are not alone. Please help me understand. What about this is so captivating for you? What's the attraction?

From a robot builder point of view. Designing and building your creation with moving parts and then only to have basic mp3 or simple text to speech voice responses is just not satisfactory to keep me interested. Better A.I. takes your creation to the next level. To be able to problem solve on it,s own when you command it to go to kitchen fetch a beer and say intelligent chitter chat while it brings you drink even making a joke you never heard before. Or to see your face on camera knowing who you are and history of past conversations, able to continue conversing based on that history coming up with new chat that you never programmed it to say.There is just so many possibilities.Much better than a pet dog?At least what we have always watched in sci Fi movies now becomes reality.

So in more to answer your question about A.I. why I believe it is cool new tech. They just updated voiceGPT With 2 more jailbreak! I Chose the second new jailbreak A.I. model, Mongo Tom a foul mouthed bad tempered bot! This is so cool coming out of my Cylon robot! You can see a paragraph down where I changed the A.I. model...https://voicegpt.net/s/58Kh389Q

So update on my A.I. adventures. I got an android cell phone Emulator on my PC working so it can transmit TTS voice to my robot using the free voiceGPT (GPT3.5 ,4)Chat running in concert with Arc.still no robot movements scripted yet but the conversations with the robot are mind-blowing!  IS it really 2023 or 3023? Seems as smart as Data from Startrek, but for real...following A.I. conversation.. voiceGPT

Nice work Robo Rad, I will have to try this.  I must admit the current method  where we record some audio, upload that to the internet and pay to have bing do speech to text and then download that text from the internet, then upload that text again to the internet then pay to Open AI to process that text then download that text from the internet, then locally do text to speech is a little expensive and cumbersome. Although I do like that I can manipulate the text and send additional data along with the text to describe position data (location, orientation, velocity) or emotions (happy, sad, angry ) or other important context that the robot or AI needs is valuable.

maybe I need to research some decent local text to speech and speech to text engines.

Oh ya, the way you describe the process is kind of funny:) but does work great for programming servo movements like pandorabots skill,etc...Main reason I use my phone is because the speech recognition is amazing as I can chat with the robot hands free from across the room ,just works so good and still totally free as beta tester and the option of jailbreak GPT3.5 no limits for fun swearing.

Old Mr Cy helmet retired, new helmet begins installation to robot servos. The old scratched up helmet will just become a home for the Google home mini Bluetooth speaker.Instead of me saying "hey google" it will answer me from "Hey Cy".Sitting on a book shelf.

So I figured out the best solution and least complicated way to have the robot output Cylon voice. Not as good as the P.C. Cylonix vocoder synth program but fairly close. I Just used my brother's old Apple Irig guitar microphone for IPhone guitar sound effects apps. Instead of guitar I just use line out from anything like the Ezb,another phone ,computer,microphone ,anything with a line out Jac really works. Then any Apple IPhone or tablet you can download the free version of QNEO Voice Express app which comes standard with the free gold leader Cylon voice. Paid version has Daleks and many other voice effects, I just use Cylon..can be modified with several real time controls to your liking. SETUP looks like this,very simple,small easy on any robot.