Hi Tyler
I would try setting up STT using Polly with my codebase. The code is available on github but detailed install instructions are here:
https://thisrobotai.com/setup.phpIf you use my code OOTB you can get it working quickly. Then you can build your own STT plugin to replace the standard one that works through my online APIs.
On the GitHub site I have provided a link at the end of the instructions to a custom STT that I created to use Google STT engine. You can take a look at how that is done and modify it to use Polly. Github site is here:
https://github.com/leematthewshome/robotAI_python3As it is Python3x it wont interfere with Jasper (which runs under Python2.7). I would suggest a fresh image though.