Yeah it's a clone of the trivial parts of the Echo, but not the difficult parts that are necessary to make it great, specifically:<p>* Beamforming microphone array (this is a real clone: <a href="http://www.xmos.com/products/microphones" rel="nofollow">http://www.xmos.com/products/microphones</a> )<p>* Wake-word / hot-word detection ("Ok Google", "Alexa", etc.)<p>* Intent recognition / NLU
Hey, it's monteslu!<p>If you are unaware, OP runs the best coworking meetup(s) in Phoenix. If you're a Phoenix dev and not coming to coffee and code, then you're missing out!<p>Louis/Alyson (since Jarvis was her project, I think): welcome to the #1 on HN club ;-)<p>/me snark
What is the current state of offline, non-cloud-connected speech-to-text?<p>My phone has a voice processing chip, and it recognizes my speech pretty well, but I still can't figure out if it's completely disconnected from the cloud (despite intentionally not agreeing to the privacy policy)<p>His demo is just a shim for Amazon's API...
I'm curious, anybody know if there's a simple way to wire this up to Home Assistant (<a href="https://home-assistant.io" rel="nofollow">https://home-assistant.io</a>)? My first thought was MQTT, but for some reason PageNodes doesn't have any MQTT output support, which is kind of odd for something claiming to be an IoT connectivity platform.
Does anyone know how the Google TTS voices in the example are exposed by Google? Is there an API / service for these? I haven't been able to find it.<p>I was able to use them on PageNodes via the "espeak" output just fine, but would like to use them directly in my own apps.
This article is a bit out of my comfort zone (I'm not a web app developer), however it does link to a GitHub repository by Amazon, that I was unaware of, which shows how to configure a Raspberry Pi as an Echo clone in quite a lot of detail. This is something I <i>can</i> do and have bookmarked it for a rainy day. So for that alone, thanks for the submission!
Unfortunately, I think my first chatbot that I wrote about a year ago, and named Jarvis (based on Hubot by Github) will be cloned by a million of these projects...<p>I admit, it's not the most creative name; I just thought it would be cool a year ago to feel like Iron Man as I asked Jarvis to deploy my application to production...