AI Furby-Like Creature

When you wrote "Trisquel Mini", I assume you wanted to write "Trisquel Netinstall" (without a screen, you do not want a X Server installed).

I found this free software for speech recognition: http://freespeech.sourceforge.net

Speech recognition is a very difficult problem. Do not expect to find an application able to properly write everything you say.

What's all the fuss about the cute-lovely AI creatures? I find these toys kind of scary.

some Free speech recognition systems
http://www.voxforge.org/
http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en_index.php
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/

As Magic Banana said, speech recognition is a very complex and one of the most difficult areas of software, which requires large number of experts(and lots of money) to develop. So don't expect to find a perfect solution.

I'm trying to think of how much it would cost to create an AI Furby-Like
Creature.

I'm thinking Trisquel Mini would be a good OS, but am not sure. There are
basically three programs the creature would have to run.

1: Speech to Text.
2: AI Interpretor from Alice.bot
3: Text to speech.

I know there is Free Software for text to speech and Interpretors for AIML.

I am not sure if there is a Free Software speech to text.

Has anyone ever created such a thing as this before? How much processing
power would such a creature need, considering it would likely need to run a
GNU/Linux OS Distribution?

I remember when the Furby came out, I thought that's what it did. At least,
more or less until I got one. I guess I always wondered, with computers
getting cheaper and AI software available with no cost and complete freedom;
why someone hasn't made such a creature.

I think it would likely be a hit. About the only thing I can guess is that
the processor would still have to be at least an Intel Atom or so and that
such a thing would make the creature cost more than most people would want to
pay.

When you wrote "Trisquel Mini", I assume you wanted to write "Trisquel
Netinstall" (without a screen, you do not want a X Server installed).

I found this free software for speech recognition:
http://freespeech.sourceforge.net

Speech recognition is a very difficult problem. Do not expect to find an
application able to properly write everything you say.

What's all the fuss about the cute-lovely AI creatures? I find these toys
kind of scary.

some Free speech recognition systems
http://www.voxforge.org/
http://julius.sourceforge.jp/en_index.php
http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/

As Magic Banana said, speech recognition is a very complex and one of the
most difficult areas of software, which requires large number of experts(and
lots of money) to develop. So don't expect to find a perfect solution.