This has been my dream since I was a teen - and now the tech is real. This is a fork of an existing speech-to-speech project by Huggingface, with a lot of additions to add the right chimes, the voice* and the overall wakeword architecture.
I’ve had it running for a day and … I like it. I’ll most likely wire up a version of this throughout the house so the whole family can live the trekkie life :)
*) Cloning Barrett’s voice … I know. It’s just little old me showing that we now have the tech, not some commercial venture. It’s done with the utmost of respect for her craft throughout all those years!
Oh thanks all for the nice comments! My fork is at https://github.com/troed/speech-to-speech but beware it’s not kept in any other state than what I’ve last pushed :) Also you’ll have to supply your own chime wavs and voice sample etc.
I’ve added example scripts for client, server and MCP configs. It should be much easier to replicate with those now.
That is cool as fuck. Nice job
I’d be tempted to have it switch voices for different purposes. Robert Picardo’s EMH for medicinal queries, Kate Mulgrew for “what should I do” queries, alternate between James Doohan & LeVar Burton for technical stuff, etc. Might throw in some Lower Decks characters for fun, too.
What do you use for voice synthesis?
Qwen3-TTS does excellent cloning and is very fast. On my workstation (5060Ti) it renders the audio at around 2.5x realtime. I’ve added an example with my parameters now.
“A keyboard? How quaint.”
Circa 2009-2010 there was a desktop overlay theme for Windows XP that I think was called System47. It was super basic, a LCARS overlay that let you access basic apps and info. It included a voice command which you could open apps or perform certain functions.
OMG I love this. Thank you for sharing!
A long time ago, I tried to tune a Piper voice using Majel Barrett’s speech from her reading of the novel “Q In Law”, but I didn’t get very far - just a small amount of training data collected.
I agree; for reasons other people have discussed in detail here, I think Majel Barrett is probably one of the least ethically ambiguous actors you can do this with.
Holy shit I love LLMs now
