- Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:17 am
#80008
Does anyone know developments for implementing Snips.ai. Speech control on ESP 8266 devices .
- Fri Jan 11, 2019 9:52 am
#80010
If I understand what snips ai is about from a quick read, then it most likely needs more hardware such as audio dsp, microphone array. There are already commercial esp32 boards with all of this fitted and ready to go, so I would use one of them. No doubt APIs/SDK either exists or is being developed for these esp32 boards - I seem to recall Espressif has produced a board so that will no doubt get SDK support.
You might argue that this is 'expensive' compared to trhowing together something based around an esp8266 but I think the esp32 is the right tool and the total solutio is already available off-the-shelf. I don't know how much workload the cpu/hardware needs to do, but my gut-feeling is that the esp8266 has neither the compute power nor the amount (and resolution) of analogue inputs to do the job.
Does your question stem from reading that support is coming for esp8266?
You might argue that this is 'expensive' compared to trhowing together something based around an esp8266 but I think the esp32 is the right tool and the total solutio is already available off-the-shelf. I don't know how much workload the cpu/hardware needs to do, but my gut-feeling is that the esp8266 has neither the compute power nor the amount (and resolution) of analogue inputs to do the job.
Does your question stem from reading that support is coming for esp8266?
- Sat Jan 12, 2019 6:42 am
#80030
I was looking in this area a few months ago. It seems not quite there yet for the ESP8266. I think it should theoretically be possible, its got the I2S input so you can easily connect an I2S mic (eg) directly to it and the CPU power should be enough for a neural network doing voice keyword spotting. The obvious code to do that would be Tensorflow and there is an experimental version of that for micro controllers, but its very new and I've not even been able to get it to compile cleanly yet. Espressif has the ESP-ADF for voice stuff on the ESP32, but that also is pretty recent and doesn't support custom keyword spotting yet, coming in March this year maybe. I gave up and ended up using a Raspberry Pi Zero to make a non-internet connected voice controlled light switch.
- Fri Jan 18, 2019 6:56 am
#80133
Thank you for this information!
torntrousers wrote:I was looking in this area a few months ago. It seems not quite there yet for the ESP8266. I think it should theoretically be possible, its got the I2S input so you can easily connect an I2S mic (eg) directly to it and the CPU power should be enough for a neural network doing voice keyword spotting. The obvious code to do that would be Tensorflow and there is an experimental version of that for micro controllers, but its very new and I've not even been able to get it to compile cleanly yet. Espressif has the ESP-ADF for voice stuff on the ESP32, but that also is pretty recent and doesn't support custom keyword spotting yet, coming in March this year maybe. I gave up and ended up using a Raspberry Pi Zero to make a non-internet connected voice controlled light switch.
Thank you for this information!
