I want to talk to my robot

[Pito Salas]

Hi all,

I’m sure many of you have done this… I want to look into giving voice commands to my robot and having it respond with voice or canned answers.

From projects at Brandeis I seem to remember that literally talking out loud didn’t work great with any of the little boards and whatnot that we can get from Adafruit. We ended up going with Bluetooth headsets.

But that’s old news right? Anyone have some pointers on where to start? Thanks!

Pito

Boston Robot Hackers &&
Comp. Sci Faculty, Brandeis University (Emeritus)

[Thomas Messerschmidt]

I’m going to be taking about that at the next meeting on the 29th. 

I have working code for both Windows and Linux. 

In a nutshell using a simple Python script, it’s:

1. Use Whisper voice recognition 
2. Send commands to Arduino over USB serial/ Bluetooth 
3. Arduino executes the commands 
4. Text to speech (TTS) replies. 

Thomas Messerschmidt

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[Pito Salas]

What hardware other than the arduino do you use — mic, speaker, anything else?

Also I will try to make the 29th assuming it’s zoomed. But if you have a handout or document for that please share it here?

Best,

Pito Salas

Boston Robot Hackers &&

Computer Science Faculty, Brandeis University

On Apr 22, 2026, at 9:35 PM, Thomas Messerschmidt <thomas...@gmail.com> wrote:

I’m going to be taking about that at the next meeting on the 29th. 

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[Brian Higgins]

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On Apr 23, 2026, at 7:08 AM, 'Pito Salas' via HomeBrew Robotics Club <hbrob...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

What hardware other than the arduino do you use — mic, speaker, anything else?

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[Thomas Messerschmidt]

I use the computer’s built-in mic and speakers. That’s all. It’s relatively a simple setup. 

Thomas Messerschmidt

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Need something prototyped, built or coded? I’ve been building prototypes for companies for 15 years. I am now incorporating generative AI into products.

Contact me directly or through LinkedIn:   

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ai-robotics/

On Apr 23, 2026, at 4:08 AM, 'Pito Salas' via HomeBrew Robotics Club <hbrob...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

What hardware other than the arduino do you use — mic, speaker, anything else?

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[Steven Nelson]

For speech Recognition and Text to Speech I have been making Android Apps using MIT App inventor 2 a HC-05 Bluetooh modem/module and an Arduino. 

 This works very well. It uses GOOGLE to do the Recognition. It works great on a phone connection or a Tablet that is connected to WiFi. 

Here is a Tutorial on YouTube. 

https://youtu.be/h463BJRMfNQ?si=ZdMYgJnA_T8Eiffl

Here is the Github link to the Arduino code. 

https://github.com/ammadkarar786/E-Innovators-code/blob/master/mit_code.ino

MIT App Inventor 2 makes creating interfaces and controls for robotics projects easy to do. 

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