Switch with voice for a person with a disability

Hello Mike,

the most reliable way to manage text to speech is using the Google API features. For my MuZIEum project I have found a lot of documentation but all the information are fragmented, unreliable and adopt some kind of complex and not efficient solutions. There is some tricks you should do to register and manage the Google APIs in the right way, but there are very good supports and I have already used this solution.

In theory you can use for free only about a couple of hours of "spoken" by day, then you should pay (a very low pricing to be honest). This limitation can be easily managed as most of the voice messages that should be used (I suppose) can be recorded once and used off-lline all when needed.

More about the project maybe helpful to give you some specific advice.

Enrico

Thanks Enrico I'll try this, thanks for the quick answer Mike

Just to save time and effort, give me some time and I will pass to you the references. I had not yet had time to post the details of this part of the project development.

As an example take a look to the video below where the same sentence is spoken in different languages.

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to MM & EM: EM's MuZIEum project sounds pretty Good. Can't wait till EM posts more material. Q1: Is the Device pictured in the "text-to-speech" video, a Google Home Device? Q2: WiFI/RJ45 connection to Router? Q3) What are power requirements of the physical Google Home Device ? 5Vdc? at ##mA? (Think Portability) BTW I ran my RPi 3B, 7" Touch Screen off a small Smartphone Power-Bank for at least two hours. I wonder whether one can run (For portability) RPi & Google Home Device [hereafter as GHD] on a large (mAh) Smartphone Power-Bank. Q4 (for MM): What I/O Device do you envision your Son will be using? Possibly a 7" Touch Screen like I have? IF our three (e14 poster's) AIM's coincide (to some extent), and if I have the equipment, I can serve an Additional Test-Bed. BTW1 If we are going RPi, can we settle on an OS? Latest Raspian Jessie w/ Pixel?

THX. USCDADNYC (NY NY USA)

TO MM & E: In that video EM posted. Q1: I noticed a SenseHat Add-on Board. I never figured-out what uses they are for it's features? Q2: Are you guys going to go InterActive, besides the Interplay between GHD and the person (MM's Son)? Going to have the System possibly Drive Devices (via Relays)?

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Hi Mike,

While I am all about building cool things I think where you might have the most success would be to use like an Amazon Echo Dot. $49 then provide an API into your Raspberry using a "skill".

The voice recognition and flexibility of the dot will far exceed what you can do in the near future.

Just a thought.  Again I love to build things from scratch but if you need something pretty robust and reliable the dot/API might make sense.  Amazon has a guide on creating skills:

https://developer.amazon.com/public/solutions/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/getting-started-guide

The ADE (Amazon Dot Echo) w/ Alexa S/W is the other Device we can use. What say MM & EM? Google Or Amazon? The only drawback about ADE is that Amazon does/or-will couple their "free" offerings w/ having the Amazon Prime Service ($100(USD)/year) BTW I am not a Amazon Prime Customer. ADH OR GHD? Doesn't matter to me. Just make a decision, I can buy the same device.

USCDADNYC (NY NY USA)

I'm a little new to Dot but I don't think you need the prime membership unless you are going to use prime services.  IE you can just by the Dot connect it to your Wifi.  it may not be able to do Prime music and all that stuff but the skills you can use really have nothing to do with Prime.  For example my dot talks to my honeywell temp controllers for the house.  This has nothing to do with prime and connects to honeywell service.

So I think my concept would be use the Amazon Dot because of it's very good voice recognition.  Take the time to create your own skill to send commands to your Raspberry Pi or whatever.  One benefit of the Dot is you could use like Wemo switches (already supported) to turn things on/off.  So you kind of get the best of all worlds.  Out of the box you have some device control, as you find time to build your Pi interface you can add whatever functionality you like.

My mistake Amazon calls the device Amazon Echo Dot. So please use acronym AED. AAR the AED URL has some interesting specs: 1) "...Echo Dot comes ready to connect to your Wi-Fi. The Alexa App is compatible with Fire OS, Android, and iOS devices and also accessible via your web browser. Certain skills and services may require subscription or other fees..." Accessing via a Browser on a RPi3 is Slow. Q1: Is that what we want to do? 2)",,, Echo Dot, power adapter (9W), Micro-USB cable,..." 9W measured at input to USB Power Brick (110VAC) OR at the Output from a USB Power Brick (5VDC)?  Q2: what is the power requirement of a AED? Can we run it off an USB Power Bank? The AED works e/ Smart Home devices like Nest devices (BTW over-hyped, over-priced),Q3: Can the Google Product? The Google Home Device (GHD)

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Here is a good article sing Raspberry pi with Amazon web services same as echo. Roll Your Own Amazon Echo on a Raspberry Pi | Hackaday . It should be a great project. Let us know by posting it here.