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Is there an analogous thing for RPi? I've got some old ones and a USB mic array from seeed etc that I've still not put to use. Also got an ESP32 (vanilla with a
by _joel 3y ago
Is there an analogous thing for RPi? I've got some old ones and a USB mic array from seeed etc that I've still not put to use. Also got an ESP32 (vanilla with a small oled) if I can use that?
- kkielhofner 3y agoThe Home Assistant project (as part of the "year of voice") is working on wake word, etc for Raspberry Pi from what I understand. However, as someone who's tried to do exactly this on a Raspberry Pi before supporting wake word and getting clean audio from 25 feet away with background noise, acoustic echo, etc with a random collection of software and hardware is very challenging. I have an entire graveyard of mic arrays from seeed and others myself :). Espressif really did us all a solid with this hardware and their ADF and SR frameworks. Whether it's cost, being fully assembled and ready to go, and even wake word, AEC, AGC, BSS, NS, etc at least as of now the ESP BOX is essentially impossible to compete with in terms of hardware in the open ecosystem. I talk about this and more on our wiki pages[0] (check out "Hardware" and "Home Assistant"). In short, the Espressif frameworks we use /technically/ support the "regular" ESP32 but it's so limited (and the ESP BOX/ESP S3 is so cheap) we're not super interested in supporting it. We're aiming for an end-user experience that's competitive with Echo, Google Home, etc in every possible way - speed, quality, reliability, functionality, and cost. In fact, we want to crush them on all points to where there's no reason left to buy one of them. [0] - https://github.com/toverainc/willow/wiki/ https://github.com/toverainc/willow/wiki/
- _joel 3y agoThanks, yes that's perfectly reasonable. Cheers for the reply.