Hi everyone, in this video I'll talk
about the architecture of the Historic
Voicebot project. I'll talk about which
hard- and software I'm going to use to
develop the interactive installation and I'll
also give a quick demo. Let's get to it!
Technically, the project consists of
three main parts which are: the backend
the frontend and the interactive
installation itself. In the backend you
have Google's Dialogflow, software which
can be used to create a chatbot, in this
case a chatbot of Ada Lovelace, which
I'll be making from 20
question-and-answer pairs about her. Dialogflow is connected to a Node.js server that
I'm setting up and this Node.js server
will be orchestrating everything, making
sure all the different components of the
interactive installation are up-to-date.
The front end of the project consists of
an HTML canvas page which will display
all the graphics, so all the animations
and also the captions, the things the
historic person is saying. This frontend
is displayed on the touch screen which
allows visitors to interact with it and
click on questions and has also put in a
very nice frame to make it complete.
Another major part of the interactive
installation is the vintage phone with
the Raspberry Pi inside. To capture
speech and to send out audio I'll be
using an AIY Voice Kit, just like we used
for the rocket backpack and the talking
potato.
So that's the technical architecture of
the Historic Voicebot project. If you
have any questions, feel free to comment
them in the comment-y part below. So up
next is a quick demo of the
work-in-progress and I hope to see you next time!
Who are you?
My name is Ada Lovelace.
What are you famous for?
People say I'm one of
the most important figures in the
history of the computer because I wrote
the first computer program and saw the
potential of computing devices beyond
just calculating numbers.
[Dog sneezes in background]
Ooooh, big sneeze!
