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Share Conversations, Experiences, Graphics / Re: Hacked Elvis Alive

« on: March 23, 2011, 11:14:22 pm »

Having done an Elvis myself, the road to getting him to be able mouth Text-To-Speech or any wave file (for a physical chat bot, for instance, or to read feeds, or web pages) is pretty straight forward on a PC (TTS-viseme for output and speech recognition for input) with a single jaw servo addition and leaving everything else "stock" (he has pretty cool natural head movement as well as object tracking via a couple if IR sensors on the front of the bot).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMOHxdAu_9k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLexWRZCtU

Total cost is about $250 (elvis + servo + USB servo control board)

Cheers!