I just added another useful tool to the home control arsenal – speech – not on the PC but on my phone. As regular readers know I use ImperiHome a lot – talking directly to Node-Red to control stuff – and that’s fine – it works – it’s not the…
Category: speech
Speech … the Final Frontier
Updated 02/01/2017 Buffered, SD-cached high-quality human-like speech working alongside sound effects for your IOT project. Requirements: Raspberry Pi or similar with audio out, Node-Red and a little of your time. But you don’t need this blog – there’s a WAY better way to do this – in my latest entry…
IOT Speech recognition
Here’s a thought – now this might be available – but I can’t find it.. Most of us have phones – some Android, some Apple, few Microsoft. So sticking with Android for now – the latest Android phones (I have the HTC One M8 with Android 6.0 which is marvellous)…
Node Red Speech – The Sequel
Some time ago, I wrote about speech output (text to speech) on the Raspberry Pi using Node Red. Well, that’s been running just fine but like most things – it works until it doesn’t. In this case the nice people at Google have decided it is time to make money…
Talking Raspberry
Updated 21/DEC/2015 This entry is now DEAD. Google have changed the goalposts and removed the API access for their language translation and text to speech system so that the base program behind this work – a program called Normit – is no dead in the water. I’m doing an update…