Those of us who were lucky enough to get hold of the new issue of The MagPi, with the AIY project give-away, have been beavering away over the weekend trying to get our cardboard boxes to understand a word we’re saying, with differing levels of success. I, myself, had great fun and reviewed the project here. The Pi Hut recently tweeted that they were ordering another pallet of the issue and kit!
Mike Redrobe has written an excellent post on the Raspberry Pi forum in which he installs some additional software on the Raspberry Pi and then extends the voice-recognizer Python script that AIY uses. Once the AIY service is restarted, you can command the AIY box to “play <track name>” and it will go and find the track on YouTube and play the audio through the speaker. Ingenious! Take a look at how to do it here.
13.5.2017
I will be building this. BUT how can I get the SW without having to resort to the given downloadable image.
I want to be able to install this project to an existing Dedian Jessie image.
Has anyone some ideas? One would need the know all the dependancies
and system settings etc + compile from source assuming that is available?
No cloud solution wanted – yet.
Can anyone please suggest a way?
Take a look here: https://github.com/google/aiyprojects-raspbian/blob/master/HACKING.md