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Alternative To The Scary Terry Sound Board To Drive A Jaw Servo
What is the alternative to the Scary Terry "sound board" to drive a jaw servo?
open:
1 - AudioToolBox Plugin
2 - Also open a scrip, add ControlCommand("AudioToolbox Plugin", "ImportUWPVoices")
3 - open speech settings
4- open the talk servo - set up your servo here
many voice now, good luck
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https://synthiam.com/Products/Controls/Audio/Talk-Servo-16179
This control will bind to the Text To Speech engine. When ever a text to speech EZ-Script command is executed (i.e. Say, SayEZB, SayWait, SayEZBWAit), this control will move the specified servos to simulate a mouth movement. If your robot has servos connected to simulate a mouth, this control will move those servos while speaking.
https://synthiam.com/Products/Controls/Audio/Talk-Servo-16179
here is my progress:
https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/Life-s-challenges-and-the-future-18692/comments
you wrote:
You have already the answers:
If you are looking for an ARC/ARC solution you have the:
https://synthiam.com/Products/Controls/Audio/Talk-Servo-16179.
if you are looking for an hardware alternative, use google search i found this one:
https://www.frightprops.com/picotalk-servo-controller.html
If you are trying to integrated Alexa, Google Home an external hardware controller is the easiest solution.
maybe a external hardware controller is the easiest solution.
simply put:
As you can see from the above video, I already understand the "talk servo" in ARC, I use it, it works well with my robot. I use this with my Arduino.
This has nothing to do with: Asking my Alexa a question and having the answer come out of my robots mouth, understand?
something like this: https://youtu.be/xwCsENHCenU
I tried the Blue tooth, it was only one way, my computer's audio was playing on the Alexa unit.
I want to understand the other way around. Alexa's audio playing on my computer - ARC
1) your computer does not play sounds, your computer outputs audio to one or more speakers.
Did you understand the setup ? Do you understand how the scary servo works ?
1) Alexa outputs the audio to the scary board (Red connection)
2) scary board outputs the audio to the speaker behind the head (BLUE connection)
3) scary board controls the head servos (GREEN connection)
The setup does not require ARC / ARC / PC
you can read more about amazon dot integration here:
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-connect-amazon-echo-dot-to-an-external-speaker
and setup does not require ARC / ARC / PC - (will not work)
I understand, I considered a scary Terry audio board yesterday, I just thought there was a way to use ARC / ex-builder, guess not.
I was trying to keep it in the Synthiam / Ez-robot world.
I have been using the "talk servo" with ARC / ARC - works well, audio from my pc or ez -robot to match my robot's mouth
thanks for your input.
https://synthiam.com/Products/Controls/Audio/Sound-Servo-PC-Mic-16112
you connect the DOT's output jack to your PC's microphone jack, I recommend a custom circuit to adapt the DOT's line audio out to a microphone input level, you can build one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8_eNOOwAxA
you will have DOT's audio available via microphone input and you can use ARC's Sound servo to control servo(s).
With the above connection in place DOT's speaker is out of the picture, once you connect a stereo jack DOT's cuts the speaker and diverts the audio.
You will need to route/mix the PC's microphone input to a speaker output, there is a good commercial software to handle the routing:
https://www.vb-audio.com/Cable/
https://synthiam.com/Community/Questions/Amazon-Echo-Hacks-3393/comments
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The sabrent usb device is an additional mic & headphone ports, if your pc has a microphone jack you don't need the usb device.
https://www.amazon.com/Sabrent-External-Adapter-Windows-AU-MMSA/dp/B00IRVQ0F8
I recommend to build the circuit to convert DOT's line output jack to microphone level, I built one and it works.
The post does not explain how you will get DOT's output again, so i presume you can do IT with an audio splitter (hardware) or via software (commercial audio cable) but bear in mind you will need another splitter to combine the original PC audio (ARC/Windows Text To Speech) with Alexa's outputs if you want to keep a single robot speaker.
I believe the software can help but you will need to test and validate if it works.
Forget Alexa, I will use AIML Bot modified with ARC / ARC :-)
Thanks again ptp
I am using the talk servo now works great,
I had to play with the setting for the mouth of my robot to fine tune, sync together (words / mouth)
tonight I am using for the mouth
I use the script manager