This week I investigated many different text to speech packages. I evaluated TTS packages on ease of install and use, whether the TTS required internet connection, and the quality of the voice. A lot of the text to speech packages had robotic or choppy voices, …

This week I worked on finding the components I need for the audio input, as well as choosing a speech recognition package and investigating text to speech packages. For audio input hardware I decided to go with a simple TRS to USB soundcard input into …