New Product Discoveries - Cirrus Logic's Voice Capture Dev Kit and Seeed's ReSpeaker Core

Today I am excited to present two devices that will aid you in adding voice recognition services to your products. Speech recognition is becoming less of a novelty and more of a requirement in products and devices that are used in our daily lives. To help get you familiar with this technology we have a couple of kits that can get you on your way.

The Voice Capture Development Kit from Cirrus Logic (part number 598-2471-KIT) comes complete with the CRD1569-1 voice capture board, a Raspberry Pi, power supply, ribbon cable, and passive speaker. The voice capture board in this kit is essentially a HAT (Hardware Attached on Top) for the Raspberry Pi. This HAT gives you the ability to add Amazon Alexa voice services to your product. Additionally, the Alexa development software allows you to add custom vocabulary to your design.

The second product I want to discuss today comes from Seeed Technology in the form of the ReSpeaker Core which is based on MT7688 and OpenWRT (part number 102010088). Originally funded through Kickstarter, the ReSpeaker requires a bit more development than the Cirrus Kit I mentioned previously. This kit comes with the ReSpeaker Core and an 8 Gig Micro SD Card. The rest is up to you. There are a variety of boards that are compatible with the ReSpeaker, including the Grove System. This board runs OpenWRT which allows you to set up the ReSpeaker for network communication (as a router or switch for example). By utilizing the ATMega32U4 processor, you are able to program the ReSpeaker just as you would an Arduino device, or, if you wish, you can use the C, C++, or Python libraries. On top of that, there are open source projects available for offline speech recognition with the ability to tie this device to a PC and communicate with the Bing (Microsoft) word recognition system for speech-to-text and text-to-speech.

Have you used either of these devices? Let us know in the comments, and as always, thanks for watching!

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Randall Restle 在电子元器件行业从业四十余载,学识渊博、经验丰富。 现处于半退休状态,担任 DigiKey 应用工程副总裁。他曾经领导过多个应用工程、技术人员和管理人员团队,指导他们开发原创、独有的先进技术产品。

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