AI Interactive Santa

[SmartAlecLights]

For starters i was bidding on the tv not this. (this came with it)

What the hell am i talking about?

A Penguin Books Australia’s ‘Dial-a-Story’
https://www.becausexm.com/great-experiential-marketing-penguin-books-australia-s-dial-a-story/ (now dead)


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2Yi3dfa_4I


The electronics are based from this project im guessing
https://github.com/CrazyRobMiles/RaspberryPi-DialTelephone

Principal - Lift handset, plays a message, then user selects using the buttons an that story plays



The electronics is:
A arduino eth mega just for the buttons, then talks via usb to the rasp pi
A usb soundcard for the handset mic an speaker

Totaly love the concept, But want to chance it for christmas
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Now I was Thinking that metal plate that says 'we love stories', replace with a HDMI screen.
Principal - Left handset, A AI Interactive Santa gets displayed, and talks to the kids an responds in a voice chat. (like a normal santa would)

Project for 2026 - of course.
I thought i would put it up here, just incause others thought this weird prop could be what there show needs.
An maybe some help on the AI an graphics side of it..

Well just a Thought.

 

[drakky]

interesting , first link is broken though

 

[SmartAlecLights]

Well if they have now removed the site.. does that mean i can release the code on the sd card..lol
Put a YouTube link there of the project.

 

[SmartAlecLights]

Been chatting with gemini, and im going to test a Llama AI model on a xubuntu machine (i7gen6 32gig)
Apparently it will be easy according to AI..
So Let the headaches begin

 

[drakky]

Been chatting with gemini, and im going to test a Llama AI model on a xubuntu machine (i7gen6 32gig)
Apparently it will be easy according to AI..
So Let the headaches begin

be interesting, it's quite easy with python on windows if you get stuck with gemini claude is a good 2nd choice

 

[SmartAlecLights]

Component	Recommendation	Why?
The Brain	Ollama (Model: Llama-3-8B-Instruct)	Highly realistic, jolly, and remembers the name easily.
The Ear	Whisper (Base or Small model)	Much more accurate than Vosk when you have a PC's CPU power.
The Mouth	Piper TTS	Even on a PC, Piper is great because it sounds natural and instant.
Memory	Python session_state	Store the name and wishes in a simple list to recap at the end of the call.

So Llama is the AI,
So we do Speech to text - inject into AI - AI Thinks - AI spits out Text - Text to Speech (sounding like a santa voice)
Then i reckon one of the Santa face models we use on xlights, to sync the face images to the speech

Then i thought of a receipt printer an charge $1 to the parents for the kids list..lmao