I think like 7-9 years ago when a bunch of family were together, I had plugged a rbpi into the local network in the living room and connected it to a speaker wi

I think like 7-9 years ago when a bunch of family were together, I had plugged a rbpi into the local network in the living room and connected it to a speaker with a mic (I was in a diff room), and I proceeded to have a convo with one of my younger cousins by text to speech with some voices with the `say`command on osx and playing it on the rbpi. They didn't know it was me at first, just some mysterious person they could talk with, but i came clean. Maybe if you didn't something like that, and showing them how to do it too so they can talk with themselves with the words they typed before, they might start thinking about it a bit deeper. Fun nonetheless!