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Google Releases DIY Open Source Raspberry Pi 'Voice Kit' Hardware

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

MrPlow writes:

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 Tuesday May 09 2017, @01:31AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 09 2017, @01:31AM (#506702)

    That's very good.

    Okay.

    My first fucking question/rant here was going to be if Google is still using the fucking thing as a microphone to listen to goddamn everything.

    You only ask questions or rant about what Google is listening to on the "fucking thing" because of your fucking?

    I refuse to use any such technology precisely because it "phones home", which is really a misnomer. It's not phoning home, but acting like a thin client with Google's hardware doing all the heavy lifting. As such, Google gets to keep and use all the information obtained in such activities. Which is fucking horrifying.

    Such kink! Google are fucking horrifying but who are you fucking? We cannot keep up.

    I can't wait for AI, mastered speech to text, and neural interfaces, but only if they are free. By free, I mean Freedom included. That does mean running on local hardware freed from all binaries/blobs.

    Boner cancelled! I like my freedom and my local hardware running binaries - non-binaries and blobs not so much! Both tinfoil and latex hats will both be required in the future I see?