Learn another language with TJBot!
This recipe uses the Language Translator, Speech to Text, and Text to Speech services to act as your own personal language translator. Speak in English and TJBot will translate your words to another language!
This recipe requires a TJBot with a microphone and a speaker.
First, make sure you have configured your Raspberry Pi for TJBot by following the bootstrap instructions.
Next, go to the recipes/translator folder and install the dependencies.
$ cd tjbot/recipes/translator
$ npm install
Create instances of the Language Translator, Speech to Text, and Text to Speech services and download the authentication credentials file for each service. Combine each of these files into a single file named ibm-credentials.env and place it in the tjbot/recipes/translator folder. See ibm-credentials.sample.env for an example.
Run!
$ sudo node translator.js
Note the
sudocommand. Root user access is required to run TJBot recipes.
Now, speak into TJBot's microphone to have it translate your words to another language!
By default, TJBot will translate your words into Spanish. Try editing the code to make TJBot speak other languages!
🎉 Extra Credit: add a special voice command to change the langauge. For example, telling TJBot to "translate to German" should make future translations be to German.
If you are having difficulties in making this recipe work, please see the troubleshooting guide.
This project is licensed under Apache 2.0. Full license text is available in LICENSE.
See CONTRIBUTING.md.