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Proposer

Ian Tan

Title

Talking Hairy Coo

Goal

A conversational AI that you interact with using your voice instead of text

Description

(Can be 1 or 2 students, and will work out the scope accordingly) This project is to develop an audible talking chatbot that you interact with using your voice instead of text. The chatbot is to be powered by a text based Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) application but with the interface being speech recognition (using OpenAI speech-to-text) and responding using text-to-speech (also OpenAI text-to-speech). In summary, it is a project that is: i) Voice-powered: It uses speech recognition technology to understand what you say. ii) Conversational: It can respond to your questions and requests in a natural, spoken way, like having a chat with a real person. iii) Interactive: You can have a back-and-forth conversation with the chatbot, asking follow-up questions or providing additional information.

Resources

OpenAI API Subscription Microphone, PC, Speaker

Background

The campus has a basic text based RAG Chatbot for information about the programmes. Would like to extend this to speech enabled for easier conversation, either about the campus, or as the name suggest, about Scotland in general.

Url

External Link

Difficulty Level

Variable

Ethical Approval

None

Number Of Students

2

Supervisor

Ian Tan

Keywords

rag, llm, speech-to-text, text-to-speech, openai

Degrees

Bachelor of Science in Computing Science