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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: * Beamforming microphone array (this is a real clone: http://www.xmos.com/products/microphones ) * Wake-word / hot-word detection ("Ok Google", "Alexa", etc.) * Intent recognition / NLU
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: * Beamforming microphone array (this is a real clone: http://www.xmos.com/products/microphones ) * Wake-word / hot-word detection ("Ok Google", "Alexa", etc.) * Intent recognition / NLU
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.
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: * Beamforming microphone array (this is a real clone: http://www.xmos.com/products/microphones ) * Wake-word / hot-word detection ("Ok Google", "Alexa", etc.) * Intent recognition / NLU
I'm not sure why posters on HN are so eager to shit on other people's work. Maybe something to do with arrogance or insecurity (leading to a need to bash on others)?
I don't think it's "shitting on" it (although text is notorious for making things seem far more serious or critical than they actually are), just clarifying the remaining differences.
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. 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.
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. 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.
Also MDN has some pretty good documentation on the WebSpeech API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Speech_...
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. 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.
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: * Beamforming microphone array (this is a real clone: http://www.xmos.com/products/microphones ) * Wake-word / hot-word detection ("Ok Google", "Alexa", etc.) * Intent recognition / NLU
Even if true, not sure why you wrote such a snarky comment. This obviously is a side project of the author and just serves as an inspiration, it's not like he is asking money for it or anything.
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: * Beamforming microphone array (this is a real clone: http://www.xmos.com/products/microphones ) * Wake-word / hot-word detection ("Ok Google", "Alexa", etc.) * Intent recognition / NLU
wow, that microphone array you linked costs USD$750! Are there any cheaper alternatives?
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... 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...