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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: 2) by kaszz on Monday May 08 2017, @09:03PM (1 child)
I'll guess the GPS voice recognition isn't available as open source.
What is "echo" level better?
The Mycroft project is very fuzzy about hardware demands. But their web page is all fluffy with bug pictures. But if it can run on RPi it should not be that bad.
(Score: 2) by fyngyrz on Tuesday May 09 2017, @01:04AM
Echo is Amazon's system. It is very good at recognizing speech. There's a command, "Simon says", where you can make it say anything. For instance, "Alexa, simon says, the problem we see here, my friends, is antidisestablishmentarianism" – it gets that and most everything else, right. As far as my experience goes, the Echo's by far the best at recognition right now. Could be stuff out there I don't know about, of course, but I've used Siri and Google's stuff, and it is very weak by comparison.
Yeah, if Mycroft will run on an rPi(2), it'll run on an even moderately current desktop or laptop with the right Python and other resources, etc.
I plan to get one. Amazon's "development" API for the Echo is an outright horror story, requiring canned phrases, utilizing zero actual AI past voice-to-text, either use of their "cloud" or instantiation of a dedicated secure server. After looking into it and realizing what a mess it was, I just settled back to wait. As sucky as that system is, someone had to beat it. Mycroft might be the one, as it's all open source so one would think that whatever its flaws might be, one could code around them.