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posted by CoolHand on Monday May 08 2017, @06:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the listen-to-us! dept.

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Google has long been focused on artificial intelligence. Its Google Now and voice assistance projects have used AI to better the lives of users. The Google Home voice-based hardware unit brings its assistant to life, making traditional inputs and displays unnecessary. With just the power of your voice, you can interact with the device -- nothing else is needed.

The search giant has decided to take artificial intelligence to the maker community with a new initiative called AIY. This initiative (found here) will introduce open source AI projects to the public that makers can leverage in a simple way. Today, Google announces the first-ever AIY project. Called "Voice Kit," it is designed to work with a Raspberry Pi to create a voice-based virtual assistant. Please keep in mind that the Pi itself is not included, so you must bring your own. For this project, you can use a Pi 3 Model B, Pi 2, or Pi Zero. Want a Voice Kit? Here's how to get it. Heck, you might be getting one for free and you don't even know it.

Source: https://betanews.com/2017/05/04/google-open-source-raspberry-pi-diy-voice-kit/


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @07:28PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 08 2017, @07:28PM (#506519)

    Will you be getting the Google Voice Kit? What types of projects do you anticipate making? Tell me in the comments below.

    It's the Soylent Family Assistant, similar to the Amazon Echo except designed to make family mealtimes, dinner parties and social gatherings into events to remember. Every time it can match a spoken keyword, it retrieves and recites comments posted to this site by Ethanol-Fuelled and TheMightyBuzzard.

    May kickstarter it, any interest?

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 08 2017, @07:38PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Monday May 08 2017, @07:38PM (#506525) Journal

    Everytime it recognizes a word or two it replays something it heard a while ago. "John is good" .. Raspberry-Pi response "Ooohhh John push it hard and spank me" ;-)

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by VLM on Monday May 08 2017, @08:45PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday May 08 2017, @08:45PM (#506564)

    Can it stream Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up"? I have an Alexa and I have been rickrolled thru an open window so if you're gonna be feature complete with the competition...

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @01:15AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @01:15AM (#506695)

      Can it stream Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up"?

      Definite possibility - added to the features list. I think the trigger for this should be anytime a non-soylent news channel is mentioned or vice-versa? Need TMB and EF input on the rickroll here...