<story><title>Show HN: Rotary Phone Project</title><url>https://github.com/mnutt/rotary</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>justinlloyd</author><text>As a child growing up in the UK I was allowed to call up, each evening, the bedtime stories phone line run by British Telecom. I used to call that bedtime story phone line from an an old 1970&amp;#x27;s era rotary Snoopy telephone from British Telecom which I still own.&lt;p&gt;I ever so carefully updated the phone with a new RJ-30 jack (the original was bare wires), so that in a custom built base that the phone sits on is an Nvidia Jetson running an LLM and trained on Charlie Brown&amp;#x27;s voice and a voice recognition model.&lt;p&gt;Dialing 1 will answer questions about Snoopy and Peanuts history and Charles Schultz in Charlie Brown&amp;#x27;s voice. You can just talk to it. Dial 2 and a very nice lady with a British accent will read you a bedtime story, interactively, like a choose your own adventure of sorts, from a large database of stories. Dial 3 and Lucy will pick up, announce that the therapist is in, and talk with you about what&amp;#x27;s troubling you, again, voice recognition and an LLM. Dial 4 and you get Woodstock. Any other number gets you an &amp;quot;adult&amp;quot; from the Peanuts cartoon that is impossible to understand, again, voice recognition to understand what you&amp;#x27;re asking, but the response is unintelligible.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Rotary Phone Project</title><url>https://github.com/mnutt/rotary</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tornquist</author><text>Very cool project. I was really struck by this comment:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Dial out to a short list of family contacts. It&amp;#x27;s not something I think about much, but when I was a kid there was a phone on the wall and once I could reach it, I could use it. Now, if you&amp;#x27;re not old enough to have a cell phone, you also can&amp;#x27;t call anyone at all.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s not something I&amp;#x27;ve ever thought about, but is a really huge change in what kids can do. I was always allowed to call over to a friend&amp;#x27;s house and see if they could play.</text></comment>