Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!
This week:
AutoWizard Improvements
Work on Text to Speech
AutoWizard Improvements
If you haven't noticed yet, the entire narrative for AI has been on SHAKY ground for the past few years. It's tied to many global economies and services and if they go bust💥, the online services that MyRobot uses could also go bust💥!
So as a backup plan I launched the game with offline self hosting. It's a difficult problem but a lot of work has been done to make it as easy as possible:
First issue was that it was so difficult to setup your own web server and host your own AI, it can be a rabbit hole and there are numerous ways to master this skill, plus it can require expensive hardware.
In come the AutoWizard which was warmly received! However there were still some issues. It automatically handles installation, setup, and launching of AI services for you so lots of edge cases were discovered. Today I'm proud to say that the TEXT GENERATION side of the AutoWizard is very robust for both the ollama and kobold offerings.
Work on Text to Speech
The last issue to solve is proper TEXT TO SPEECH. Synthesizing voice especially high quality cute anime girls is non-trivial. So work is still being put into this. Expect an update next week on this! Piper and Chatterbox is also slow and expensive to run on computers.
The Romantic Update build with the new changes will be live here on Patreon for testing in a few hours. Also comes with the following bugfixes:
Added map scan signatures for ingredients
Added Steam Cloud support for sessions
Fixed computers being accessible from really far away
Fixed restaurant chairs getting players stuck on session load
Fixed thumbnail reading in sessions
Fixed Sandbox mode unlocks all items in Story mode if you return to Title Screen
Stay tuned!