2020-05-25 (M) HouseRobotInterference

The RAND() function in Google Sheets worked well, but it required a lot of overhead from a browser, and I wanted to keep the power consumption down with this project. Not to mention, it was messy! The more I thought about it, the less sense it made to do things this way. It could have been an elegant solution to prandomly select a word, enunciate it via text-to-speech TTS, and repeat, but up against the hardware limitations of a Raspberry Pi, it was not going to be reliable. Plenty of other solutions have been turning around in my head since I started.

• Prandomize the word list, and read sequentially
• Pros:
• One "start talking" command keeps things running for hours
• Minimal delay
  
• Cons:
• A macro won't be smart enough to know when the reading is done
• Dead time at the end of the list
• I don't know if there is a clean solution
• Find a collection of word sound files and shuffle them
  
• Pros:
• Easy as pie
• Cons:
• There may not be a collection out there
• Copyright issues
• Word list is static unless I find new sound files
  
• Use TTS on all the words to make sound files
• Pros:
• Neat, once it's complete
• Expandable via the same process
  
• Cons:
• Time to convert
• Must write an Audacity macro to create files. Doable?
  
• Record myself saying all the words
• Cons:
• Ugghhhhh, no thank you
  

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