"Plenty of Pokémon fans and engineers have created working Pokédexes complete with image recognition to let you scan toys and art to identify your favorite monsters . BigRig Creates and Mr. Volt have taken this a step further, creating what they're calling the "World's Smartest" Pokédex, capable of not only recognizing Pokémon, but giving you data about them from the games, acting as a voice assistant, and much more."
"The voice, however, needed some tweaking, so BigRig Creates used his own voice to create an AI text-to-speech voice model that sounded closer to the original but didn't rip the lines from the show. He says this was in an effort to use the tech to make something "ethical" and "homegrown" rather than training it on the performances of actors Nick Stellate and Eric Stuart from the anime."
The World's Smartest Pokédex recognizes Pokémon from images of toys, plushies, and fan art using a reverse Google image search. It pulls data from the Pokémon Database, supplying Pokédex entries, stats, learnable attacks, and in-game locations for all 1025 monsters. The hardware and image-recognition pipeline were demonstrated in a 13-minute video, while a separate hardware-focused video is planned. The voice assistant uses an AI text-to-speech model trained on the creator's voice to emulate the anime Pokédex without using actor performances. The device accurately identifies many monsters, including disguised or stylized examples, though it can fail on some ambiguous images.
Read at Kotaku
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