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!
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.