Check out the ReSpeaker Kickstarter project The project is clearly run by some brilliant ESL techies, who have a truly funky product: https://www.kickstarter.

Check out the ReSpeaker Kickstarter project The project is clearly run by some brilliant ESL techies, who have a truly funky product: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seeed/respeaker-an-open-modular-voice-interface-to-hack/description https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/seeed/respeaker-an-open... I was well chuffed to see fresh ideas. As you say, why does it matter if it comes from a US company ?