Hi all, I wish to have my own customized smart speaker like echo dot, but fully programmable (Linux level).<p>For whatever reason I cannot even find any hardware alternatives, just some people who hacked the echo
Dot’s bootloaders.<p>If anyone know any alternative hardware and projects to create such a platform, I would be thankful for that.
<a href="https://mycroft.ai/product/mark-ii/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mycroft.ai/product/mark-ii/</a><p>Unfortunately it isn't going as well as they'd hoped:
<a href="https://mycroft.ai/blog/update-from-the-ceo-part-1/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mycroft.ai/blog/update-from-the-ceo-part-1/</a><p>Or you could try reSpeaker (different options available):
<a href="https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker/</a><p>An older interesting comparison of mic arrays:
<a href="https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-microphone-arrays-respeaker-conexant-microsemi-acuedge-matrix-creator-minidsp-950de8876fda" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://medium.com/snips-ai/benchmarking-microphone-arrays-r...</a>
The hardware is rather straightforward, something like a Raspberry Pi with off-the-shelf mems microphone module, powered Bluetooth receiver, battery + management (if you want it portable), and potentially some UART/SPI interface for more specific sensors/comms. The software I don’t have any direct experience with, but potentially something like Ada from HomeAssistant would be functional and easy to implement/integrate.<p>Is there a particular part of this that seems most challenging for you? Would you be interested in developing something to fill this potential gap? I’m toying with a lot of the same tech right now, I’d be glad to contribute.
This is the closest I have found, unfortunately, devices have been out of stock in many stores: <a href="https://github.com/espressif/esp-box">https://github.com/espressif/esp-box</a>
I created Willow, which uses the Espressif ESP BOX:<p><a href="https://github.com/toverainc/willow">https://github.com/toverainc/willow</a>