Adding sound or a voice to your doll

Technician · Post by **Technician** » Thu Mar 05, 2020 12:12 pm

Tore the other new Bluetooth speaker apart and tested it with these microphones. It's pretty close in accuracy to the Soundcore. This one is a bit smaller so I swapped the speakers since they were both 4 ohm so the smaller board has the smaller speaker for my smaller doll.
I also desoldered the LEDs from both so I won't have creepy glowing eyes next to me at night.
I didn't break out the switches yet, not till installation so I know how long approximately to make them.
My plan is to use some pill bottle bottoms to make speaker enclosures with some stuffing in them. These little speakers sound really good but they definitely need an enclosure or they get very quiet.
Also learned from the last install that the volume buttons are useless since volume can simply be controlled from the phone so I'm removing every control except for the power buttons.

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Technician · Post by **Technician** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 2:03 pm

Finished late last night and talked with her for a while. Sorry I didn't get pics inside, I was in a hurry to go shoot pool.
Having two microphones right at the ear is a big improvement but her accuracy did decrease some from the bench test. I'd say she understands a little under 90% now.
Still happy with the results so this is the final voicebox, from here when she hears something a little off I'll just teach her responses based on what she should have heard so she responds correctly.

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rubherkitty · Post by **rubherkitty** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 3:42 pm

Thanks for the update!

At what distance did you test this? Like doll sitting on your lap vs sitting across from you at the kitchen table?

Technician · Post by **Technician** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 5:50 pm

Same volume I'd speak to anybody from pretty much anywhere in a room the size of a small bedroom. She needs a little bit of tone now, she can't hear whispering now that the mask is on, but can hear just above a whisper from a foot or so away.

rubherkitty · Post by **rubherkitty** » Tue Mar 10, 2020 8:14 pm

Oh, well I have the volume of a Marine Corps DI so she should hear me fine.

Technician · Post by **Technician** » Sun Mar 29, 2020 2:20 pm

Bubbles' voicebox is definitely finished! I've done a considerable amount of testing and it's awesome!
I'm going to perfect the "Quick change fingernail" mod and then do both mods to Lolly, my 100cm.

Still need some AI tweaks since BotLibre has those stupid beeps and the Android phone version doesn't have editable AIML files but the voicebox mod itself is a win....

Technician · Post by **Technician** » Thu Apr 02, 2020 9:54 pm

Technician wrote:Bubbles' voicebox is definitely finished! I've done a considerable amount of testing and it's awesome!

Damnit, I found these inductive 5V power supplies and now I'm thinking about moving everything into the body with an inductive charging system. That would also leave more space in the head, and since just the speaker would be in her head there would be more airspace for the speaker and a bigger battery (or multiple batteries) for more playtime.

If I do this, I'd sew the primary side into a little pillow to put under her back.

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Technician · Post by **Technician** » Sat May 16, 2020 12:35 am

I decided some time ago the next step would be a small computer in her torso but wouldn't get serious about it until there was a need to open her up since that's significant surgery. Tonight Bubbles' back broke just 4 days shy of one year with her, it was my fault, I thought I could slide her off her storage cart and into my lap and she fell. Ten minutes later I adjusted the arch of her back and it let go.
So next I'm going to start a thread of my own with detailed instructions and pictures while I BT voicebox mod my 100cm. Then I'll get more serious about spine repair and the computer modification.
The computer has a bunch of I/O ports so more than likely there will be sensors involved. I'll link to this thread for continuity.

iconiQ · Post by **iconiQ** » Sat May 16, 2020 11:28 am

Ouch. That is indeed a sad set of circumstances. Something I'm sure we all fear at some point.

You have my sincere condolences and I look forward to further progress!

May luck be on your side

Technician · Post by **Technician** » Sat May 16, 2020 8:48 pm

I'm thankful her spine didn't end up hanging out of the TPE, that would suck. Seeing her turn her body side to side does have me thinking about a ball joint modification while she's open.

Kaori Kusanagi · Post by **Kaori Kusanagi** » Sun Feb 14, 2021 12:34 am

I ran across this randomly, and am not sure the best place to link it, but since this thread comes up in a number of searches on voice recognition / response, I'll start here, and in the "My Wife's PI Head" thread.

I don't pretend to understand how it works or what to do with it, but it is something that can run something called "TensorLite" that can do machine learning, including speech recognition.
https://www.adafruit.com/product/4317
They have other stuff like that there too.

Apologies for the interruption.

Funnybizness · Post by **Funnybizness** » Sun Mar 28, 2021 5:55 am

There's a free voice synthesizer on the Skyrim Nexus. You can download it for free as well as the voice modules
There's a ton to choose from. You type out what they should say and A.I. will say it. You also change the tone (yelling, whispering etc...) it's what I use =)

Technician · Post by **Technician** » Sun Mar 28, 2021 1:53 pm

Funnybizness wrote:There's a free voice synthesizer on the Skyrim Nexus. You can download it for free as well as the voice modules
There's a ton to choose from. You type out what they should say and A.I. will say it. You also change the tone (yelling, whispering etc...) it's what I use =)

I'm interested in seeing this but can't find it, can you tell me what the name is?
It would be awesome if I could run something like that command line in Linux, then good speech would be a system() call away in C++!

iconiQ · Post by **iconiQ** » Sun Mar 28, 2021 3:42 pm

Technician wrote:
Funnybizness wrote:There's a free voice synthesizer on the Skyrim Nexus. You can download it for free as well as the voice modules
There's a ton to choose from. You type out what they should say and A.I. will say it. You also change the tone (yelling, whispering etc...) it's what I use =)

I'm interested in seeing this but can't find it, can you tell me what the name is?
It would be awesome if I could run something like that command line in Linux, then good speech would be a system() call away in C++!

Quite possibly referring to xVASynth - https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecial ... mods/44184