Ganzbot Prototype

This Arduino robot will verbally read your twitter feed to you.

More details on the robot: http://blog.mozmonkey.com/2008/ganzbot-an-arduino-robot-who-reads-twitter/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• arduino
• ganzbot
• jeremygillick
• robot
• steveganz
• twitter

[jgillick]

Speech is done on the computere since there aren't many affordable speech synthesis chips available. It's really unfortunate.

[etharooni]

Wow! That's great!!!

How did you get the speech synthesizer to work with serial? Or was that on the computer end? Either way, that's really awesome!

[jgillick]

Speech is done on the computere since there aren't many affordable speech synthesis chips available. It's really unfortunate.

[etharooni]

Meh! I keep posting a comments and it doesn't show up. Anyway, I found a good TTS module for the Arduino on the Parallax website. Just search on their site for 'Emic Text-to-Speech Module'

[jgillick]

Thanks. I looked at that but needed a male voice for this robot. Plus I didn't want to spend $70 for it.  Pretty cool looking module though.

[Lachlant1984]

Does the robot get its power from the USB port? What speech does it use? Does all the word processing take place withing the robot? I like what you've done, very clever.

[jgillick]

Yes it is powered through the USB port. To talk it uses the FreeTTS Java library on the computer. Unfortunately there aren't many affordable speech synthesis chips available.

[lightfunk]

I love the way his default emotional state is kind of angry,

[jparicka]

I love this thing, I really do!!