Tony is a Geek

As shown HERE (Part 1) & HERE (Part 2), I've been fiddling around with an old rotary phone, adding some switches and servo and hooking it up to a Raspberry Pi 5 in order to do some Speech to Text processing, some local / offline LLM processing and some Text to Speech output. Well, I've been faffing around with this on & off for a short while and I've now finally got the hardware & the software doing what it needs to do.  It is version 1.0, as in, it is in Python, however I do have it all setup to be able to drop down to C coding and see if that actually makes things faster / more efficient etc.. So, what was the plan? I wanted to take an old rotary phone, attempt to leave the externals as standard as possible, but make it so that a person can pick up the handset, dial a number, "ask a question", put the phone handset back down and then have the phone ring when an answer is ready, the person picks the handset back up and the answer is spoken to the pe...

In a good & bad way, I've been somewhat distracted & busy with work/work - when that happens all my toy playing experiments go on hold. Whilst I'm far from having time to play again, I'm just dropping this here as a mental reminder for myself & as a teaser that this is sitting on my desk as a "NEXT" item to investigate. You can purchase it HERE Updates to follow.