SteemPi is a always on Tv-box software that connects with the internet and blockchain, it would be very awesome to integrate a digital voice assistant to SteemPi.
Digital voice assistants are a popular technology and the development of it is going fast, this technology can take away the use of a keyboard mouse and monitor for (simple) tasks, because you could just ask the digital assistant software to preform the task for you and let it speak out the result.
The commercially available digital assistants products can be expansive and are positioned in the market next to the Tv-box products instead of integrating the digital assistant inside there Tv-boxes, they rather want you to buy both products.
Amazon Echo product family
Google and Amazon both offer there digital assistant sofware to the public to play around with, integrate it in own projects, and to improve it. Because of this SteemPi could have the same functionality as Google Home or Echo.
A big downside is that those services sooner or later will be more commercialized which makes Google Home and Amazon Echo a lot less interesting for the integration into SteemPi, but there are alternatives.
Let's have a look at the currently available digital assistants that are a possible to integrate into SteemPi:
Google Home
(Google assistant)
Website: https://madeby.google.com/home/
Instructions: https://www.hackster.io/Salmanfarisvp/googlepi-google-assistant-on-raspberry-pi-9f3677
Amazon Echo (alexa)
Website: https://www.amazon.com/echo
Github: https://github.com/alexa/
Instructions: https://github.com/alexa/alexa-avs-sample-app/wiki/Raspberry-Pi
Mycroft
Website: https://mycroft.ai
Github: https://github.com/MycroftAI
Instructions: https://github.com/MycroftAI/mycroft-core/blob/dev/README.md
Jasper
Website: http://jasperproject.github.io/
Github: https://github.com/jasperproject
image file: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jasperproject/files/latest/download
Example videos
"Raspberry Pi Google AI Assistant"
- 5 minute video about the features of Google's digital assistant)
- The wooden case idea in this video could be used for making your own SteemPi case
"Raspberry Pi Bake-Off - Google Home vs. Alexa"
- Comparing Google home and Alexa on Raspberry Pi
if you know other similar active digital assistant projects that are worth to have a look at and could be integrated in to SteemPi, please share it in the comments, and / or comment which option you would prefurr for SteemPi.
Do you have experience with the above mentioned products, what are your thoughts about a digital assistant in SteemPi ?