1GHz, single-core CPU 512MB RAM 802.11 b/g/n wireless LAN Bluetooth 4.1 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Case The Raspberry Pi Zero W V1.1 by far not the most powerful, but my favorite Raspberry Pi board, because it’s so very most and still capable enough. After putting the tiny board, weighing only 9.3g / 0.3oz into a nice […]
Embedded
Micro Python on ESP32 (HUZZAH32)
Adafruit’s HUZZAH32 Feather board is built with the official WROOM32 module: Two CPU cores that can be individually controlled, and the CPU clock frequency is adjustable from 80 MHz to 240 MHz 448 kB of ROM for booting and core functions. 520 kB of on-chip SRAM for data and instructions. 8 kB of SRAM in RTC, […]
Emotion Lamp

The idea behind the Vocal-Emotion Lamp is rather simple: to use a small affordable computer that can continually recognize emotion from the human voice and then visualize the result of the analysis, effortlessly and enjoyably. The implementation of this idea uses the small and inexpensive Raspberry Pi computer, extended with a far-field microphone expansion board. The software that performs […]
Raspberry Pi – Translator

Recently, I described how to perform speech recognition on a Raspberry Pi, using the on device sphinxbase / pocketsphinx open source speech recognition toolkit. This approach works reasonably well, but with high accuracy, only for a relatively small dictionary of words. Like the article showed, pocketsphinx works great on a Raspberry Pi to do keyword […]
Raspberry Pi 2 – Speech Recognition on device

This is a lengthy post and very dry, but it provides detailed instructions for how to build and install SphinxBase and PocketSphinx and how to generate a pronunciation dictionary and a language model, all so that speech recognition can be run directly on the Raspberry Pi, without network access. Don’t expect it to be as […]