I might have to get one of these, if only to find out if it's better for LED controls than Alexa is. Looking forward to more videos of Google AIY projects Chris.
Excellent video! I ordered mine last month from Pimoroni, still waiting for it to ship, so it's nice to get a "sneak peek". With the extra connectors for servos, SPI and I2C on that HAT this has a lot of hacking potential.
I understand that these ship from Pimoroni and others at the very end of October. I've just uploaded a follow-up video (that releases this Sunday) where I try out Google Cloud Speech, and get that controlling LEDs connected via GPIO pins added to the Voice Hat. As you say, a lot of hacking -- and learning -- potential here.
Thank you for this video Chris! Was not aware of Google AIY. I must say that as a child of the 70's I am both fascinated by and terrified of this :-) Looks to have amazingly useful applications but I must add, I for one welcome our new capacitor-based overlords!
@ExplainingComputers / Christopher, Please, what ever you do be extremely careful what you say around this device, nobody wants to see you being convicted for "perceived hate crime".;-)
Do you agree to Google service, "of course I do" replied Christopher cheerfully (whilst actually ignoring to fully read the terms of service agreement). Christopher, you are one very, very brave individual. Also, when you stated that "it is great to access it from our favourite single board computer", why did I get a shiver going down my spine?
Me too I'm like. .. that's amazing must get one to most of this new stuff... but todays kids are like that's too much work and you can get the echo. I think there main customers must be all in there 40s lol
mCKENIC Google aiy in this kit form is nothing compared to what's inside your cell phone. You need to spend more time on UA-cam because as your brother of seventies technology paranoia warnings that we've been given you'd be amazed to find out what satellite abilities are up there already that are part of the public knowledge base and not top secret. Lasers that can see vibrations translated into extremely clear sound. Sound and vibration satellites that pick up human movement and can identify one human from another by the sound and patterns of their footsteps several stories below. Go check out Kickstarter and you'll be shocked and amazed at some of the Technologies that are being produced by creative, consumer aiming people in their basements. Living at Cape Canaveral I watch a lot of lunches and read payload notes. Every single thing we were paranoid about already exists. with the exception of the robot uprisings and colonization of Mars.
It looks like a fun project and it's cheaper than Google home, but now Google home mini was released for $50 ($80 Canadian). I'm probably still going to get this. Just for the "I'm talking to a cardboard box" 😂
I'd heard about this, but wasn't sure what was involved. I don't think it could be much easier than this, and I doubt the kit cost anywhere near $129US the Google home cost. Thanks for another great video!
I'm not sure what amused me more; when you searched "Google Ass", the comment about having a conversation with a cardboard box, or my Google Home Mini joining in on the action during the segment where you ask your Google Assistant box all those questions. 😅
This is very cool, can´t wait to see projects with voice control. I would love to see how i can trigger a script with the assistant. please make another video with the AIY Voice kit.
I adore Google's obsession with Cardboard. I just got rid of my Home, but I might get one of these kits and repurpose my old test 3B for this. Awesome!
6:04 -- Some nice project here for a 3D printer. I enjoyed your recent coverage of the trade show. The prices for exceptionally high-quality devices is now very reasonable indeed (and falling).
Much more mature of a development project than the Alexa Pi project. The cardboard box is great too so it looks like they at least spent some time engineering a solution instead of leaving it all up to the developer.
It does seem to sound like a speaker in a cardboard box and I doubt I'd really enjoy listening to it stream music or even podcasts, but it is pretty cool.
Great video, and I learned a new tech term, 'cardboardy parts' :-) A Friend sent me one of this kits and your post was a great companion during my own assembly. Thanks again!
Hey Chris, I have a question for you about this AIY project. I'm looking to get some for my and my older kids to do, and I am wondering...do they continually need to be plugged into a computer and/or monitor? I have no previous experience the RaspberryPi. Thank you!
Awesome, I have a kit on pre-order in the US from Microcenter, not sure if it's still available but you get a free kit with purchase of a Pi3($35). Should be available in two weeks.
I think you got a good deal there! :) I too have heard, from multiple sources, that there will be supplies of this kit with many retailers in about two weeks (end of October 2017).
Cool project. Needs a means of filtering out audio not intended for Google's servers. Perhaps an additional SOC doing only speech recognition between the microphone and AIY-kit.
That looks like a great next project. Unfortunately, there seems to be no stock anywhere. eBay has some, where the greedy profiteers have bought them up and selling them for nearly £50 each! I will have to pre-order and wait. Great video once again Christopher.
As I understand it, there is stock arriving at the £25 price in a lot of stores in late October 2017 (links in video description). But a pre-order will be wise. These will sell out (again) quickly . . . it is a very nice kit.
5:36 The flap behind the speaker should be folded the other way so it's directly behind the speaker. Then it holds the speaker better in its place due to the tension.
Nice kit. Also I'm hoping to use my pi for like TV Tuner, Freeview and maybe use it for my Lego RCX brick. I've also managed to use my tablet and phone to link my pi using VNC viewer app. Sadly my wireless keyboard got broken so I had to use VNC Remote Desktop on my tablet as a keyboard and mouse.
This project, combined with a few other parts, (minus that big green button), would be useful with a screen and installed behind a bathroom mirror and get the news and weather in the morning while I'm shaving. Wahdaya think? I found several videos that show how to do that. I'm going to try that. Thanks.
Had a look to order one of these kits following the links below Unavailable. Only available pre order when stock arrives.The kit costs more than the Pi itself after shipping but is very tempting add on.
Most retailers expect stock in late October -- though it is possible that enough people have now pre-ordered to use up the anticipated stock. This video has probably not helped the situation! :)
Cool thing, but let me remember you that don't have to buy such a kit to run the Assistent on your PI. With some basic Linux knowledge you can run it all on your own. You'll will need: - A USB sound card or DAC (for speakers and microphone) - A microphone - A speaker (could be a portable one or a speakerset) - Your PI (doesn't matter what kind) - Last but not least the Google Assistent SDK All information on how to setup can be found on their website ( developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/develop/python/ ) Maybe you can download a image file and load it onto your SD card like in the video but I'm not sure. Have fun :) I had my fun with it but it was to limited in functionality, you can't connect with other services yet like a Android TV, Spotify, Hue lights, etc.
i bought an arduino mega and a bunch of unos and im nailing it . thanks for all the great vids . robot should be up tomorrow get it ready for holloween. scare the kids reallly really good !
Thank you Chris watching your video I was able to get AIY Project to work. Used src/main.py in dev terminal push button hello Google. Getting Google assistant was where problems occurred. Thanks
This is really good. I had not heard of the AIY project before. Can the hardware be used for any other processing than Google's AI API? I'd be interested to know exactly what is going on inside that 'Voice HAT' and how much audio is actually uploaded to google to parse and respond to. I'd also be interested in sniffing the network activity in and out of the box when 'waiting' for its 'OK Google' command. Also note that turning on Audio Activity in your Google settings will active that for all your other devices which you use your google account on. I would probably recommend setting up a test google account for this.
After some research I now see the Voice HAT is just handling the Mics and Speaker amp. There's a video around of someone building their own HAT (without the servos extras) , to work with this project ;)
Nice! Three obvious questions spring to mind: (1) Will it work without the hat, per Alexa? (2) Will the hardware happily operate with Alexa rather than GA? (3) Will both AIs happily coexist running on the same RPi simultaneously?
It can be made to work with a USB microphone. I suspect that it is possible to use the hardware with Alexa. I doubt that the Pi has the power to run both at the same time.
You must be really ignorant. If you ever checked Google's privacy report you'd know Google's Home and Assistant devices aren't sending your every word to servers. They only send a few-second-long audio clip, the microphone is disabled and it will wait for you to say the wake word. Get a life and do your research before writing something stupid like this.
You should not have to pay a charge to use Google Assistant on a personal basis. You do have to register a credit card (to confirm identity) to register for the free trial for other voice services, but should not be charged.
How could our grandparents have foreseen that the pinnacle of human achievement would be illustrated by a man getting all his wisdom from a cardboard box
Interesting comments. This is the type to get for two reasons. The cardboard box is perfect because you are presumably an experimenter. Why waste money on a cabinet when you're going to use all that valuable hardware i/o for actuators and servos to make a plastic fish talk, with jaw action and a flipping tail, like someone famously already did. (Search UA-cam for "Billy Bass + Alexa") Privacy. Rather than cracking open an expensive retail device to find how to interrupt the microphones and speaker, this device offers all the flexiblility you need. Very nice.
This is great, I will be writing about this interesting AIY project by Google in my blog! By the way, would you like it if I put a link to this video in my blog post telling my readers to check this video out?
That's great! My blog is very new, and it would be great if you could share that post! When I write the post I will put a link here as a comment reply and also tweet it to you, thank you!
They could at last send you normal body, not cardboard one. Maby acrylic one. Thole kit price will be around 15$ they could use something that's not cardboard.
Would be interesting to know if this AIY thing also works with other languages as Google Now is also available outside of English speaking countries. Yes, having a software like this up and running all the time is questionable as far as privacy goes but as this has been realized using the Raspberry Pi, I could see quite some more scenarios for it than it'd be the case with _official_ Google Home hardware.
The privacy issue here is overplayed. Google Assistant does constantl listens for a watchword ("Okay Google"). But is does this using a local app. Only when it is triggered does it then stream a sequence of audio to Google. So Google is not listening to everything the user says.
I think multiple microphones improve the voice recognition. It you look closely at the shot of the board you can see that a second set of speaker terminals can be added, and a pad soldered to allow stereo output.
I love how perfectly fine this works in English. Did anyone successfully manage to configure the Kit to understand and talk in another language (e.g. German)? I think it should be possible but can't find a way.
Chris, although I'm subscribed, your recent uploads never seem to appear in the notification list of my other subscribed channels, which means I have to manually search for your most recent uploads and select the most recent video I want to watch.
Oh dear! At least I always upload at the same time -- 2:00pm BST/GMT every Sunday. Try clicking the notification bell to see if that makes my videos generate a notify. Fingers crossed . . . :)
A dozen others, but unfortunately no trace of EC, I haven't been interfering with the settings, so don't think I've inadvertently blocked you in any way.
Thanks for this video sir...... Sir, Can you tell me how to make the smart mirror? Or just I want a little help in choosing the mirror for smart mirror...
OK so I got it all working with keyboard, monitor and mouse... but how do you go about setting it up so that you can plug in the power, wait for it to boot and operate it as a headless unit??? Not that technically literate... but can just about manage!
Cheers on getting the Pi / Google Aiy together on one go and on camera. I was wondering, could I use a wireless microphone to listen to results as I strolled around the house? I await your response.
Thanks! The setup was a rather stressful one-shot kind of thing! :) Potentially a wireless USB microphone could be used. But Google's preferred solution is that you can Google Home hardware in every room, and the nearest one picks you up . . .
I saw recently a wireless hand held mic ( Marketed for Amataur rdio ) that would seem to fit the bill and I was considering using it coupled with Pi so it wouldn't be sitting there listening to me 24 / 7. What do you think? Cheers. 73's
This can be configured so its not always listening. I set up my MagPi version of this so that the button had to be pressed and then the question asked. Of course the downside is that you have to be next to the box to press the button.
Indeed. And what many people here do not seem to appreciate is that it is only always listening locally! It does not send audio constantly to Google (they really do not want that much audio). Rather, it listens locally for the watch word (phrase), and only they streams audio to Google (as it you had pushed the button).
Hi fantastic! I order One ! The end Oktober , Thank you Again for the good movies Again . You give my hobby Back, i order the Raspberry Pi etc a lot of stuf becourse of you. Thank you a lot , the World is getting a lot of digital fun. Thank you Again.
The USB connectors are used to connect a mouse and keyboard to the Pi. You can see more of this kit, and what you can do with it, in this Sunday's video. :)
ExplainingComputers thanks for the reply, a very personal service :). I wondered if it wasn't that as once it's up and running you wouldn't need those to be attached, not a monitor for that matter, so it could sit there acting purely as a google home mini. Off course, unlike said google home mini, it can simultaneously be used for other things. Anyhow, great video, as I said and I'm genuinely looking forward to the next one on Sunday.
I thought I was watching an un-boxing video. And then everything ended up inside a box!
Nice.
An unboxing, de-boxing, then re-boxing, all the boxes covered!
All boxes checked✔
u just broke the matrix fam
Box ception
"there you are, I just had my first conversation with a cardboard box"... priceless
I might have to get one of these, if only to find out if it's better for LED controls than Alexa is.
Looking forward to more videos of Google AIY projects Chris.
The price of it has dropped to $10 USD since the version 2 came out.
Excellent video!
I ordered mine last month from Pimoroni, still waiting for it to ship, so it's nice to get a "sneak peek". With the extra connectors for servos, SPI and I2C on that HAT this has a lot of hacking potential.
I understand that these ship from Pimoroni and others at the very end of October. I've just uploaded a follow-up video (that releases this Sunday) where I try out Google Cloud Speech, and get that controlling LEDs connected via GPIO pins added to the Voice Hat. As you say, a lot of hacking -- and learning -- potential here.
Awesome, I'll be tuned in on Sunday to check that out! Thanks for the response, love your channel!
Thank you for this video Chris! Was not aware of Google AIY. I must say that as a child of the 70's I am both fascinated by and terrified of this :-) Looks to have amazingly useful applications but I must add, I for one welcome our new capacitor-based overlords!
@ExplainingComputers / Christopher,
Please, what ever you do be extremely careful what you say around this device, nobody wants to see you being convicted for "perceived hate crime".;-)
Do you agree to Google service, "of course I do" replied Christopher cheerfully (whilst actually ignoring to fully read the terms of service agreement).
Christopher, you are one very, very brave individual.
Also, when you stated that "it is great to access it from our favourite single board computer", why did I get a shiver going down my spine?
Me too I'm like. .. that's amazing must get one to most of this new stuff... but todays kids are like that's too much work and you can get the echo. I think there main customers must be all in there 40s lol
mCKENIC Google aiy in this kit form is nothing compared to what's inside your cell phone.
You need to spend more time on UA-cam because as your brother of seventies technology paranoia warnings that we've been given you'd be amazed to find out what satellite abilities are up there already that are part of the public knowledge base and not top secret. Lasers that can see vibrations translated into extremely clear sound. Sound and vibration satellites that pick up human movement and can identify one human from another by the sound and patterns of their footsteps several stories below.
Go check out Kickstarter and you'll be shocked and amazed at some of the Technologies that are being produced by creative, consumer aiming people in their basements.
Living at Cape Canaveral I watch a lot of lunches and read payload notes.
Every single thing we were paranoid about already exists.
with the exception of the robot uprisings and colonization of Mars.
mCKENIC if you have an Android device it's the same thing as Siri go ahead and use it today right now it's a fun and interesting toy
It looks like a fun project and it's cheaper than Google home, but now Google home mini was released for $50 ($80 Canadian). I'm probably still going to get this. Just for the "I'm talking to a cardboard box" 😂
So true!
Thanks for another project combining theory with a practical application using the Raspberry Pi.
14:22 "You Nork"? Ha!
Thanks for your videos, I always appreciate your choice in subjects and the way you present everything.
I'd heard about this, but wasn't sure what was involved. I don't think it could be much easier than this, and I doubt the kit cost anywhere near $129US the Google home cost. Thanks for another great video!
15:32 I laughed so hard
"And there we are. I'm having my first ever conversation, with a cardboard box." Love the subtle wit!
and it is probably smarter than some of the people i`ve had conversations with.
doesnt he mean that this is the first time the cardboard box has talked back...lol
10:30 searching for google assistant. Typed in: "google ass". Laughed my head off.
put six hearts and paint it matte grey and white and you'll have a companion cube
"And there we are, I'm having my first ever convocation with a cardboard box."
I honestly love your sense of humour, EC. Anyone else feel the same?
Thanks for letting me know about this. I just ordered a couple of kits!
Enjoy your kits! :)
Satisfying clicks are satisfying
I'm not sure what amused me more; when you searched "Google Ass", the comment about having a conversation with a cardboard box, or my Google Home Mini joining in on the action during the segment where you ask your Google Assistant box all those questions. 😅
This is very cool, can´t wait to see projects with voice control. I would love to see how i can trigger a script with the assistant. please make another video with the AIY Voice kit.
I will be going this.
I adore Google's obsession with Cardboard. I just got rid of my Home, but I might get one of these kits and repurpose my old test 3B for this. Awesome!
Bloody nearly spat my tea out lol! - "Im having my first conversation with a cardboard box" absolute bloody classic!
:)
6:04 -- Some nice project here for a 3D printer. I enjoyed your recent coverage of the trade show. The prices for exceptionally high-quality devices is now very reasonable indeed (and falling).
Yes, as you say --- a good 3D printing project here! :)
I've made one myself but with raspberry pi and without the kit a d I can say that this is something very useful
"I'm having my first-ever conversation with a cardboard box"
LOL
Much more mature of a development project than the Alexa Pi project. The cardboard box is great too so it looks like they at least spent some time engineering a solution instead of leaving it all up to the developer.
And a lot easier to configure and run than the Alexa Pi project! :)
It does seem to sound like a speaker in a cardboard box and I doubt I'd really enjoy listening to it stream music or even podcasts, but it is pretty cool.
You know what sir? I really love your channel. Makes me feel back into 90's
:)
That is really cool ! in fact , its better than my smartphone...
Great video, and I learned a new tech term, 'cardboardy parts' :-) A Friend sent me one of this kits and your post was a great companion during my own assembly. Thanks again!
Hey Chris, I have a question for you about this AIY project. I'm looking to get some for my and my older kids to do, and I am wondering...do they continually need to be plugged into a computer and/or monitor? I have no previous experience the RaspberryPi. Thank you!
I'm watching this whilst setting up my voice box, and it has started to answer your questions from the video audio......skynet is live....
Usually I don’t start talking to cardboard boxes until late at night, nice change first thing in morning.
Awesome, I have a kit on pre-order in the US from Microcenter, not sure if it's still available but you get a free kit with purchase of a Pi3($35). Should be available in two weeks.
I think you got a good deal there! :) I too have heard, from multiple sources, that there will be supplies of this kit with many retailers in about two weeks (end of October 2017).
Lol I was watching this on my Android phone and every single time you said "OK Google," it activated my Google assistant.
"First time I've had a conversation with a cardboard box"?
Yeah, like we believe that. 🙄
first time the box has talked back.. ha ha ha
for a lonely person this stuff is great. Now a can have my own personal AI talking buddy 24/7 😂
I gotta give this a try! I wonder if you can get the A.I with the British accent running on it.
I think that should be possible if you can run the Google Home app on something and adjust the settings.
I want one that yells at me in a cockney accent and "tews me tago foind it mesewf".
(My cockney still needs work.)
Given the Pi is a British computer, hopefully someone at Google has thought of that. ;)
U want a buttler mr Wayne
Brilliant presentation.
This had tempted me to pick up a Respberry Pi. Great video!
Cool project. Needs a means of filtering out audio not intended for Google's servers. Perhaps an additional SOC doing only speech recognition between the microphone and AIY-kit.
That looks like a great next project. Unfortunately, there seems to be no stock anywhere. eBay has some, where the greedy profiteers have bought them up and selling them for nearly £50 each! I will have to pre-order and wait. Great video once again Christopher.
As I understand it, there is stock arriving at the £25 price in a lot of stores in late October 2017 (links in video description). But a pre-order will be wise. These will sell out (again) quickly . . . it is a very nice kit.
I've pre-ordered one. :)
Tangobaldy Enjoyed the video but had no idea what was going on.. Way above me as i never used raspberry pi.
awesome job!! a lot smaller then i thought.
5:36 The flap behind the speaker should be folded the other way so it's directly behind the speaker.
Then it holds the speaker better in its place due to the tension.
Ah! I thought it was supposed to hold the Pi down. I must try this! :)
Nice kit. Also I'm hoping to use my pi for like TV Tuner, Freeview and maybe use it for my Lego RCX brick. I've also managed to use my tablet and phone to link my pi using VNC viewer app. Sadly my wireless keyboard got broken so I had to use VNC Remote Desktop on my tablet as a keyboard and mouse.
Give it a face and body!
It can be a mascot for the channel!
YES!
That Voice kit is Really cool! :)
Yes, it is one of the best things I have connected to a Raspberry Pi.
I hope you'll make as promised in a future video a control option for LED's, servos, and lots of cool stuff
I have now uploaded a video that progresses to GPIO voic control: ua-cam.com/video/Y8joFK2O8Es/v-deo.html
14:53 haha my Google Home Mini is now going crazy, thanks 😂
A notable thing is that it's soldering free.
This project, combined with a few other parts, (minus that big green button), would be useful with a screen and installed behind a bathroom mirror and get the news and weather in the morning while I'm shaving. Wahdaya think? I found several videos that show how to do that. I'm going to try that. Thanks.
Very informative, great walkthrough - thanks!
Had a look to order one of these kits following the links below Unavailable. Only available pre order when stock arrives.The kit costs more than the Pi itself after shipping but is very tempting add on.
Most retailers expect stock in late October -- though it is possible that enough people have now pre-ordered to use up the anticipated stock. This video has probably not helped the situation! :)
great vid, love the walkthru & demonstartion..
curious if that configuration will work with the open source alexa-ish amazon stuff...
Probably . . .
Cool thing, but let me remember you that don't have to buy such a kit to run the Assistent on your PI. With some basic Linux knowledge you can run it all on your own. You'll will need:
- A USB sound card or DAC (for speakers and microphone)
- A microphone
- A speaker (could be a portable one or a speakerset)
- Your PI (doesn't matter what kind)
- Last but not least the Google Assistent SDK
All information on how to setup can be found on their website ( developers.google.com/assistant/sdk/develop/python/ )
Maybe you can download a image file and load it onto your SD card like in the video but I'm not sure.
Have fun :)
I had my fun with it but it was to limited in functionality, you can't connect with other services yet like a Android TV, Spotify, Hue lights, etc.
Unboxing 1:10 ,hardware 2:05 ,software 8:30 ,testing 13:50 .
Awesome project dude, I'm gonna have one of those.
thank you for the help ,got it working ,mine actually starting answer the questions you were asking ,lol
:)
i bought an arduino mega and a bunch of unos and im nailing it . thanks for all the great vids . robot should be up tomorrow get it ready for holloween. scare the kids reallly really good !
Excellent!
Thank you Chris watching your video I was able to get AIY Project to work. Used src/main.py in dev terminal push button hello Google. Getting Google assistant was where problems occurred. Thanks
This is really good. I had not heard of the AIY project before. Can the hardware be used for any other processing than Google's AI API? I'd be interested to know exactly what is going on inside that 'Voice HAT' and how much audio is actually uploaded to google to parse and respond to. I'd also be interested in sniffing the network activity in and out of the box when 'waiting' for its 'OK Google' command. Also note that turning on Audio Activity in your Google settings will active that for all your other devices which you use your google account on. I would probably recommend setting up a test google account for this.
Very good point on the "Audio Activity" settings. I am not aware of an official specification for the Google AIY Voice Hat . . .
After some research I now see the Voice HAT is just handling the Mics and Speaker amp. There's a video around of someone building their own HAT (without the servos extras) , to work with this project ;)
Here's a video where someone makes their own version of the Voice HAT. It's more simple than it looks! ;) ua-cam.com/video/GM1YbNMauck/v-deo.html
You can listen to all recorded audio submitted to Google through your history on your Google account
I really love how google is obsessed with cardboards
Nice!
Three obvious questions spring to mind:
(1) Will it work without the hat, per Alexa?
(2) Will the hardware happily operate with Alexa rather than GA?
(3) Will both AIs happily coexist running on the same RPi simultaneously?
It can be made to work with a USB microphone. I suspect that it is possible to use the hardware with Alexa. I doubt that the Pi has the power to run both at the same time.
Build the NSA a spy and keep it in your own house, How nice of you to help the NSA. You're such a nice guy.
You must be really ignorant. If you ever checked Google's privacy report you'd know Google's Home and Assistant devices aren't sending your every word to servers. They only send a few-second-long audio clip, the microphone is disabled and it will wait for you to say the wake word. Get a life and do your research before writing something stupid like this.
Liked your presentation. I have mine working but they want a monthly charge for service. Is this true?
You should not have to pay a charge to use Google Assistant on a personal basis. You do have to register a credit card (to confirm identity) to register for the free trial for other voice services, but should not be charged.
Fun project. Good job. Thank you.
good video, but sort of reminds me of the Internet box from the IT Crowd.
Nice I'll try it next month
How could our grandparents have foreseen that the pinnacle of human achievement would be illustrated by a man getting all his wisdom from a cardboard box
Excellent video Christopher
Thanks.
Going to try this tomorrow. Is there a way to, if you have a display attached, show visual results like a Nest Home or Lenovo smart display?
very helpful in setting up! thanks!!
:)
a good and short info, also germans can understand :-)
Very cool,but hopefully someone will sell a better enclosure for it than the cheap cardboard one.
Pre ordered my one ! Going to make my Yippit friend plooki into my own echo! IYKWM.
Cool SBC project.😎😎😎
Interesting comments. This is the type to get for two reasons. The cardboard box is perfect because you are presumably an experimenter. Why waste money on a cabinet when you're going to use all that valuable hardware i/o for actuators and servos to make a plastic fish talk, with jaw action and a flipping tail, like someone famously already did. (Search UA-cam for "Billy Bass + Alexa") Privacy. Rather than cracking open an expensive retail device to find how to interrupt the microphones and speaker, this device offers all the flexiblility you need. Very nice.
This is great, I will be writing about this interesting AIY project by Google in my blog! By the way, would you like it if I put a link to this video in my blog post telling my readers to check this video out?
Excellent. Please do put a link in your blog post, and let me have the link here or on Twitter so I can share it. :)
That's great! My blog is very new, and it would be great if you could share that post! When I write the post I will put a link here as a comment reply and also tweet it to you, thank you!
They could at last send you normal body, not cardboard one. Maby acrylic one.
Thole kit price will be around 15$ they could use something that's not cardboard.
Interesting, are you able to run the assistant from within retropie too, or only from within raspian?
Would be interesting to know if this AIY thing also works with other languages as Google Now is also available outside of English speaking countries.
Yes, having a software like this up and running all the time is questionable as far as privacy goes but as this has been realized using the Raspberry Pi, I could see quite some more scenarios for it than it'd be the case with _official_ Google Home hardware.
The privacy issue here is overplayed. Google Assistant does constantl listens for a watchword ("Okay Google"). But is does this using a local app. Only when it is triggered does it then stream a sequence of audio to Google. So Google is not listening to everything the user says.
She has a much more pleasant voice than Siri.
Great video as usual! I wonder why it has stereo microphones and single speaker. Shouldn't it be the other way around? or mono all the way?
I think multiple microphones improve the voice recognition. It you look closely at the shot of the board you can see that a second set of speaker terminals can be added, and a pad soldered to allow stereo output.
This is really cool.
Thank you for this wonderful video!
:)
I love how perfectly fine this works in English. Did anyone successfully manage to configure the Kit to understand and talk in another language (e.g. German)? I think it should be possible but can't find a way.
Chris, although I'm subscribed, your recent uploads never seem to appear in the notification list of my other subscribed channels, which means I have to manually search for your most recent uploads and select the most recent video I want to watch.
Oh dear! At least I always upload at the same time -- 2:00pm BST/GMT every Sunday. Try clicking the notification bell to see if that makes my videos generate a notify. Fingers crossed . . . :)
A dozen others, but unfortunately no trace of EC, I haven't been interfering with the settings, so don't think I've inadvertently blocked you in any way.
Ublock Origin FTW :D
Highlight of my day! Thanks for the quality video
The bizarre and interesting alternate reality of tiny computer boards...
Not nessasaraly on this topic. But I feel like if you had a podcast it would do well. I can definently say I'd listen in.
Thanks for this video sir......
Sir, Can you tell me how to make the smart mirror?
Or just I want a little help in choosing the mirror for smart mirror...
Checkout Nerdphilia's video: ua-cam.com/video/wdaBi33nd3k/v-deo.html
Thanks but it doesn't clear my doubts ....
You are asking me for advice on a project I have not built or thought about building. So there is nothing I can add here I'm afraid.
Okay....
but again thanks for your reply...
Looks like a Meeseeks box. What if you're terrible at golf?
OK so I got it all working with keyboard, monitor and mouse... but how do you go about setting it up so that you can plug in the power, wait for it to boot and operate it as a headless unit??? Not that technically literate... but can just about manage!
One day cardboard boxes will rule the world.
Wow the light on top looks like it’s high-voltage
Thank you
Cheers on getting the Pi / Google Aiy together on one go and on camera. I was wondering, could I use a wireless microphone to listen to results as I strolled around the house? I await your response.
Thanks! The setup was a rather stressful one-shot kind of thing! :) Potentially a wireless USB microphone could be used. But Google's preferred solution is that you can Google Home hardware in every room, and the nearest one picks you up . . .
I saw recently a wireless hand held mic ( Marketed for Amataur rdio ) that would seem to fit the bill and I was considering using it coupled with Pi so it wouldn't be sitting there listening to me 24 / 7. What do you think? Cheers. 73's
nice video, thx. Can you run MagicMirror on top of GoogleAssistant?
This can be configured so its not always listening. I set up my MagPi version of this so that the button had to be pressed and then the question asked. Of course the downside is that you have to be next to the box to press the button.
Indeed. And what many people here do not seem to appreciate is that it is only always listening locally! It does not send audio constantly to Google (they really do not want that much audio). Rather, it listens locally for the watch word (phrase), and only they streams audio to Google (as it you had pushed the button).
Are there limitation to Google AIY voice? Is it a full google assistant? How many commands does the assistant accept?
Limitations depend on where you are in the world. I gather it is pretty close in the US.
Hi fantastic! I order One ! The end Oktober , Thank you Again for the good movies Again . You give my hobby Back, i order the Raspberry Pi etc a lot of stuf becourse of you. Thank you a lot , the World is getting a lot of digital fun. Thank you Again.
Excellent. And I am making another video about this kit this week! :)
OK Google, where are the droids I'm looking for?
A great video but what are the USB connectors being used for? You missed that out I think.
The USB connectors are used to connect a mouse and keyboard to the Pi. You can see more of this kit, and what you can do with it, in this Sunday's video. :)
ExplainingComputers thanks for the reply, a very personal service :). I wondered if it wasn't that as once it's up and running you wouldn't need those to be attached, not a monitor for that matter, so it could sit there acting purely as a google home mini. Off course, unlike said google home mini, it can simultaneously be used for other things.
Anyhow, great video, as I said and I'm genuinely looking forward to the next one on Sunday.
You are right -- once the device is running you can disconnect the monitor, mouse and keyboard . . .