BillyBassAI

BillyBassAI is an old Billy Bass Singing Fish Toy that I retrofitted into a AI-powered chatbot. It uses voice to text transctiption, AI repsonse generation and TTS generation.

Tech-Stack

BillyBass(Hardware Control):

• Go
• Sox (audio input)
• openwakeword

API & AI Processing:

• Python, Flask
• Whisper(Speech-to-text)
• Google Gemini
• PiperTTS

Demo

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/66f519e4-afbf-4e50-9039-24a98abedd61

Hardware list

• Raspberry PI Zero 2W
• Adafruit MAX98357A
• x2 L298N Motor Driver
• x2 LM2596 Buck Converter
• USB Lavalier Microphone
• USB to micro USB adapter

Schematics

If want to build this for yourself and want more info or have any questions please feel free to reach out to me on linkedin :)

Built With

• dockerfile
• go
• python