Ever since I first saw “Iron Man” I have been interested in a JARVIS-like program. The ability to have an assistant that can look up anything quickly just through voice commands seemed just so cool! But the technology just wasn’t really there (or at least it was too out of reach).

Queue ChatGPT and some new speech-to-text and text-to-speech capabilities.

Yes, Amazon Echo, and Siri, and others exist, but I wanted something a little more … contained.

I spent a day thinking about it, and ChatGPT seemed to be closer than it seemed. It just needed some voice libraries on either side of it, the input and output, to make it work — and so I wrote a POC: