Ai Chat with TTS

This allows the ability to interact with a large language model and have it speak out its response.
The interaction is with voice input (taken from https://github.com/mallorbc/whisper_mic), but it also supports text input with the --text-chat option.
It uses https://github.com/coqui-ai/TTS for its speech generation.

It relies on https://github.com/jmorganca/ollama for the LLM, which you can get from https://ollama.ai/ and the models that are available on there.
You can choose which model to use, and change other parameters by editing Modelfile.
You can find Modelfiles made by others for Ollama at https://ollamahub.com/.

Ollama setup with Docker

You can easily run it through the docker image https://hub.docker.com/r/ollama/ollama
This option works well for windows.

docker pull ollama/ollama

and run the ollama docker with

docker run -d --gpus=all -v ollama:/root/.ollama -p 11434:11434 --name ollama ollama/ollama

The python script basically just expects ollama to be available at http://localhost:11434

Install dependencies

To install dependencies:
You technically don't need nvidia CUDA since it all can run on the cpu:
pip3.9 install -r requirements.txt
Installing with CUDA: pip3.9 install -r requirements-gpu.txt
Remember then to edit gpu=True in the TTS parameter inside AiSpeaker.py.

sample.wav is a recording of me saying "The beige hue on the waters of the loch impressed all, including the French queen, before she heard that symphony again, just as young Arthur wanted."
Which is an english phonetic pangrams which includes some different allophones. Taken from https://clagnut.com/blog/2380/#English_phonetic_pangrams

Running

For the reason listed in some issues it runs best with Python 3.9.

With docker

Assuming you have docker installed and runnning, as well as python 3.9 and this project's dependencies installed:
You can run this script to get/start the docker and run the python script.

./runchat.sh

Just the python script

Running the python script manually, assuming ollama is available at http://localhost:11434:

• To run it type py -3.9 chat.py chat or py -3.9 chat.py chat --help to view more options.
• You can also run it with different sound input/output, use these options before the command: py -3.9 chat.py -i -1 -o -1 speaker.
  • The index of -1 means it'll use your default device. To get a list of your device indexes: py -3.9 chat.py devices
• There's also a test command to test coqui-ai TTS.
  • py -3.9 chat.py speaker, or py -3.9 chat.py speaker --help for more options.
• There's also a test command to test whisper-mic.
  • py -3.9 chat.py listener, or py -3.9 chat.py listener --help for more options.

Some issues

• If Coqui TTS complains about numpy, you've got a too modern numpy and probably not using python 3.9.
• If Coqui TTS complains about MeCab missing dll, put libmecab.dll from your site-packages into system32 or whereever MeCab's executable is.