Termi2 - a typewriter that answers questions

Termi2 is a project I built that enables a TI Silent 700 electric typewriter/terminal to type out answers in response to questions typed by the user. Full build details are here: www.instructables.com/Termi2-...
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[@miscellaneousHandle]

what a wonderful walk down memory lane! i used the silentwriter 700 quite a bit in the lab in the early 80's! it was the portable way to connect to the company DEC-10 system. we "burned" thru a lot of that thermal paper. :)

[@serialhobbyism_official]

Haha, that’s awesome! They’re pretty neat machines!

[@djmips]

It's cool. It's like a very seventies scifi idea about how to talk to a computer.

[@serialhobbyism_official]

Thank you, that’s exactly what I was going for!

[@ellbug89]

So cool, is there a way to hook that up so that it just transcribes what you say. Forget it asking questions I just wanted to print out what I'm saying, there's nothing like that currently, that is relatively analog, discrete circuits, and not connected with wi-fi.

[@serialhobbyism_official]

I think that might be doable! But I think most of the ESP32-based voice-to-text libraries rely on cloud services. If you use a Raspberry Pi or other SBC, like I did for the original version, you should be able to do it all offline.

[@cyrilgest]

hello, nice project, i'm looking to do if it's possible an emulator of the silent700. i'd like to use computer with USB (usb to serial port) to send and receive texte like the silent700. do you think it's possible?

[@serialhobbyism_official]

In theory, it should work. The problem is that those USB-to-Serial adapters never work well, especially at slow baud rates (and the Silent 700 is very slow). I think you'd be better off using something like an Arduino as an intermediary, instead of a USB-to-Serial adapter.