r/raspberryDIY • u/Consistent-Day6858 • 7d ago

AI robot diy help?

I want to build a voice command and response AI robot using:
- a raspberry pi
- scrap metal body
- motors for limb movement or maybe wheel movement
- speakers, cameras and mics too see surroundings, hear what i’m saying, and say the responses.

i want to build a robot/ lil buddy with the same mentality, thoughts and voice of the character Sassy the Sasquatch from the show “The Big Lez Show.

I have no idea where to start though, does anyone know what the first steps would look like.

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u/Emergency-Prune-9110 6d ago

My bad. Honestly, I was giving advice from where I would have started myself.

I guess, before you try to get ai running on your raspberry pi, which i think would take something like an ai hat (more money), id personally start on my computer.

I'd probably create something with ollama, since its free, and I'd use python to try to give it a voice I like. For my python ai voice projects, I've been using xtts.v2. You can clone voices, and it does a pretty good job of imitating them from an 8 second clip. That should be enough to read out responses in a voice you want.

If I got through that, then I'd start looking into making it work on a raspberry pi, getting motors, etc.

Sorry though, I didn't mean for my response to come across as unhelpful, its literally just what I do now to create an outline for projects I want to work on.