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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/
(Score: 5, Insightful) by datapharmer on Monday May 08 2017, @08:19PM
Google should be ashamed of themselves for using this marketing tactic of "oh we are giving back to the maker community by letting them pay to access our closed source api"
Besides, this has already been done almost verbatim using open source by Mycroft:
https://github.com/MycroftAI/enclosure-picroft#readme [github.com]
They even offer a downloadable image for a raspberry pi 3 and a parts list...
Don't like it? Try Jasper instead: https://jasperproject.github.io/ [github.io]
Just want to do keyword recognition? Try PocketSphinx: http://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/wiki/tutorial [sourceforge.net]
Google is just after free advertising again for putting their crap in cardboard boxes.