Alexa

Creator Jack Of All Tech built a personal robot that can move, speak, listen, respond, and make decisions all on its own. It’s called Saras, and the name stands for Smart Autonomous Robotic AI System. It’s made up of a Raspberry Pi, some sensors, wiring, 3D printed body parts, a microphone, a speaker, and DC motors. It has a wake word system, so it does not react to random sounds, just like…

In a labor-intensive and technically intricate endeavor, an innovative creator embarked on a project to breathe life into virtual assistants. Drawing inspiration from the childhood vision of computer creatures, the aim was to transform the popular Amazon Echo device, Alexa, into a character with a vibrant personality. The journey began by…

In the last tutorial, we look at the ESP Rainmaker platform and how we can use it with the ESP32 through Arduino IDE. In this part of the tutorial, we will investigate the RainMaker cloud platform a bit deeper and will try to add voice assistant functionality to it. This setup can be used to build IoT based Smart home, Voice controlled…

Aeroh has taken Crowd Supply to launch its new Aeroh One which is a hackable IR remote board that can turn any remote-controlled device into an internet-connected one and supports Alexa, Google Assistant, Apple Siri, iOS/Android App, and IFTTT integration. This board is compatible with the majority of remote controls that operate over infrared has a small footprint…

Normally we are facing problems with the IR Remote sometimes it may not work and regularly we need to change the Batteries, so thought of replacing this IR Remote with Voice Assistant (Alexa). This is very helpful to all the people for changing the channels, for volume control, changing to channels directly by a single word (Alexa, change the channel to 4…

Automating products impacting one's daily routine saves time, cost and reduces one's hassle to monitor it continuously. Automated switches as described here are one great example. Integrating it with a voice assistant gives us a way more comfiness. Consider having to enter your home with a bag full of groceries. One has to learn martial arts to be able to…

As the winter season approaches; comes that time of the year when the festival of lights is celebrated. Yes, we are talking about Diwali which is a true Indian festival celebrated across the globe.  This year, Diwali is already over, and seeing people firecrackers, I came up with the idea of building the Alexa based Voice Controlled Rocket Launcher or Igniter…

Smart speakers like Amazon Echo or Google home are getting popular now days and both have capability to integrate custom skill or action to control any appliance using those Smart speaker. We previously built our own Smart speaker using Raspberry Pi and Alexa, and also controlled home appliances using this Raspberry Pi smart speaker.

Have you ever thought about a speaker which can be controlled by your voice!!! What if we can control our home appliances this way and make these appliances smarter? Voice assistants becoming more popular as we are heading towards an era of AI and IoT based systems. You have heard about Google Assistant, Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa. These all are Voice based AI systems, what…

In previous tutorials we have seen How we can build an Amazon Echo Speaker and then how can we control any Raspberry Pi GPIO using Alexa Voice. Now we are making an IoT project to control home appliances from anywhere in the world using AlexaPi and ESP-12E (or any ESP board).

Have you ever thought about a speaker which can be controlled by your voice!!! What if we can control our home appliances this way and make these appliances smarter? Voice assistants becoming more popular as we are heading towards an era of AI and IoT based systems. You have heard about Google Assistant, Apple Siri and Amazon Alexa. These all are Voice based AI systems, what…

It’s been almost two years since amazon released the Amazon ECHO voice controlled speaker and the popularity of the speaker has continued to soar for reasons which are probably not far from the astounding performance of the Alexa voice service and the fact that the platform was opened up to developers which has led to the development of Alexa compatible devices by top…