Switch with voice for a person with a disability

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Hello I want to build a switch for my son who has a physical disability. I want to use rasberry pi so I can set it up as a bluetooth and also do voice recording and playback Any ideas?

balearicdynamics · Answer

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

balearicdynamics · Answer

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. Enrico

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systech · Answer

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

clem57 · Answer

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.

shabaz · Answer

Nice thread, lots of ideas from everyone on how to tackle this voice related subject. Just to add one more to the list, there is another Raspberry Pi option that should be available soon, that is the 'Matrixcreator' board, it plugs on top of the Pi, and results in what is like a hackable version of an Echo Dot.