amazon voice recognition software arduino

It’s probably time for an in-depth comparison of the various options. Whichever way you slice it, there seems to be a real interest in having our machines listen to us. There are also open source alternatives, so if you just want to get something up and running without jumping through registration and licensing hoops, you’ve got that option as well. This newest development is Amazon’s “official” hello-world demo, for what that’s worth.

If you read Hackaday as avidly as we do, you’ve already read that Amazon opened up their SDK (confusingly called a “Skills Kit”) and that folks have started working with it already. Amazon has opened up a GitHub with instructions and code that will get you up and running with their Alexa Voice Service in short order. But if you’re interested in building something similar yourself, it’s just gotten a lot easier. Amazon’s Echo is a pretty compelling device, for a largish chunk of change. Speech recognition coupled with AI is the new hotness.

Amazon voice recognition software arduino