Microsoft Lisa - Text to speech Avatar

Note: Consider the Microsoft relese notes and repo for more complete explanation and helpful supporting links https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/ai-azure-ai-services-blog/azure-ai-speech-announces-public-preview-of-text-to-speech/ba-p/3981448

Initial Setup:

• (install express) open a terminal in the folder:
• run this: npm install express
• run this: npm install openai

Input you OpenAI API key in the config.json file to enable the LLM chat Input the API data related to Microsoft in the file avconf.json Note: Use the helper file (issue-relay-tokens.py) to get the info for avconf.json

• Run a test to ensure yor api is set correctly by checking ChatGPT: Run test_openai.js and Run issue=relay-tokens.py
• You want to get both these to run before moving on to more complex work
• Got issues? Cut and paste to ChatGPT and ask for assistance

Start the demo:

• Open a session in your terminal in the folder where your code resides: run this: node app.js
• You should see this message result in your window - server started on port localhost:3005
• Go to your browser and open basic.html file in the browser add localhost:3005
• Exercise the application as per the Videos:

Final Thoughts

• Be patient and enjoy the puzzle if things are not working right away -- stay with it you will get it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTScFT-EnOQ&t=34s