I have a say It from Parallax, and have thrown together a program that gives audio feedback,with the TalkBotBrain,depending on the commands you say.
I am working on new commands to program in the say it module, but here is a video of what I am talking about...
YouTube - TalkBot and Say-it together
That sounds very cool! Talk-in and talk-out.
I never thought of that but's a very nice idea since the Talkbot was designed to make speaking controllers etc for the visually impaired and elderly as one of it's main uses. So talk-in talk-out would be great for someone with mobility issues.
Unfortunately I don't have a flash player compatible with the youtube plugins at the moment so I cant see the vid. If you want to send me the vid that would be cool, and I can put it on the talkbot page otherwise I will just link to the youtube vid so people can see it that way.
Birdman- you didn't get it yet? That's slow I would have expected it arriving sooner. Probably customs checking it out, they just LOVE it when you send little assembled PCBs through the mail.
Wombweller- to send a command to make the TalkBot speak, all you do is send one serial byte;
'A' (65) = play sound0
'B' (66) = play sound1 etc
You can just plug in the serial lead I provided between the Talkbot and your PC, and open up any freeware terminal program that sends bytes (there was one in Windows but I'm not sure about Vista).
Then set the terminal program to "19200 baud" it's as easy as that. Then press the A key on your PC keyboard to play sound0, press D to play sound3 etc.
If you are going to use visual basic then I'm probably not qualified to help on the VB side, I know the basic basics
but that's about it I haven't used VB since I had a dos version on the '80s.
Procedurally it's very easy;
1. make a random number T, from 3-6
2. delay for (T * seconds) ok that's your random delay
3. make a random number S, from 0-9 (if you have 10 sounds)
4. send a serial byte which is ('A' + S) ok that played a random sound
Moving a servo is a little more complex but not much. If you get the above random sound player running ok with VB then it won't be hard to add the extra servo code on top.
My
Talking Skull Dice is looking pretty cool, I sprayed it matte black and it's got a bone grey hand sculpted skull on top that you press to make the dice speak. I just glued the electronics in with silastic silicone so it's drying at the moment.