English Speaking Assistant

Chat with TJBot! This is a English speaking assistant for Kids not having English as their mother tongue.

This recipe uses the Watson Conversation and Watson Text to Speech services to turn TJ Bot into a chatting robot.

Hardware

This recipe requires a TJBot with a microphone and a speaker.

Build and Run

First, make sure you have configured your Raspberry Pi for TJBot.

$ cd tjbot/bootstrap && sudo sh bootstrap.sh
$ npm install

Create instances of the Watson Conversation and Watson Text to Speech services and note the authentication credentials.

Import the workspace-sample.json file into the Watson Conversation service and note the workspace ID.

Make a copy the default configuration file and update it with the Watson service credentials and the conversation workspace ID.

$ cp config.default.js config.js
$ nano config.js
<enter your credentials and the conversation workspace ID in the specified places>

Run!

sudo node conversation.js

Note the sudo command. Root user access is required to run

Watson Services

• Watson Conversation
• Watson Text to Speech

License

This project is licensed under Apache 2.0. Full license text is available in LICENSE.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.