On 3/23/20 9:42 PM, Peter Reutemann wrote:
Likewise. I really enjoyed the discussion about voice assistants. I'm definitely planning on setting up a Naomi system at some stage on a RPi.
Do you have any recommendations for a microphone?
Cheers, Peter
I've had good luck with a cheap ($50 US) USB no-brand conference phone: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B078RJK4FW (currently out of stock) I've also had good luck with this USB sound card (2 for $7.95 US): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01KMVSIDM (also out of stock, you supply your own 3.5mm jack microphone and speaker, or use headphones) Finally, I recently purchased a Google AIY Voice Kit ($14.75 US): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B075SFLWKX (there is also a Raspberry Pi Zero version now that would not be powerful enough to run Naomi) The USB conference phone and USB card seem to do some echo filtering on device, to reduce the sound picked up by the microphone when Naomi is speaking, while the Google AIY kit does not but is cuter and has a nice green LED light on top. I wrote a plugin for that device to make the LED intensity correspond to volume level in your house, kind of like the volume display on the command line. The Google kit has become my favorite incarnation of Naomi. Most of Naomi development has occurred on the Raspberry Pi 3B, but I am currently running the 4 GiB 4B and quite interested to see what it is capable of as far as deepspeech and kaldi. Sorry most of those are out of stock, but Amazon will provide links to similar devices you might be able to use. Thanks, Aaron