GoogleAIYVoiceKit2017
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Introduction/Definition/etc
Google released a kit, available
at MicroCenter when going for
another EKENH9ActionCamera2017
and see what was clearance in the
DIY section, turns out it's a voice
HAT (Hardware Above on Top)
or similar, speaker, microphone,
and with places for connecting
more speakers, motors, LED,
etc but mostly joining Google
Cloud Platform and Assistant
for home shopping, and AI Voice
experiments, requiring an account
billing veiled as Free Trial
($300 to use in a year), TensorFlow
and AI machine learning entre...
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Well, the markets have an Alexa,
Echo, Home, and other products with an
innocuous (sp?) looking speaker
and microphone into your home,
mostly for shopping, (think Star Trek
talking to the computer, "Replicator
give me Early Grey piping hot",
or similar) but technically there
is a lot more behind it, speech
recognition has long been an
AI holy grail, just talk to the machine,
and the computational things behind
that, recognizing odd voices, like mine,
even banking systems trying to get
account history, or balance, and how
many retries before you are stuck back
at hit a number on the keypad, or
dropped to infinite wait with an operator/
customer service annoyances, or just
give up, hanging up, and likely
changing banks when they think
replacing keypad entry, or streamlining
people with technology that likely doesn't
work for everyone, is the economical answer
for everyone...
On the DIY side, maybe We can make it
work, if We had the tools, not the Big Name
Companies, and there are few bigger than
originally telcos, Amazon, Google, and
Big Money other$, enter at ~$30
and we will give you a RPi3 if you
order in advance, then show up
and boxes sitting there, now
~$25 and then repeated visits
around the holidays, $10,
and I bought one, opened and
looked at some of it,
buying another thinking hardware,
might fry, need extra parts,
maybe stream music to other rooms,
and finally tried doing something
and looking at the fine print,
only a sentence in the MagPi
Essentials (3.99 British Pound L
or similar,
"Siri, What's that in US$?")
about setting up billing...
Add a snow day yesterday/ today
and started on it, finally,
thinking maybe a geeky gift and
still trying (ironically, Turing
is a spell check answer
for the previous typo...)
to get it to work, for me...
While Google probably somehow
owns my data, and therefore
all my efforts on it,
IANAL and not sure what all
I signed up for, (it really should be spelled
out in plain English, legalsleeze...)
not really wanting surprise bills,
after promised $300 credit,
but not sure what things the Free Trial
would really cost...
(Probably like Amazon that you can't
actually close the accounts
and delete personal and financial
data...)
Old more public AI doing pricing
on Telcos, the magic in the numbers
and pricing schemes so complex
that people don't understand it,
so game it and put it off on software,
make that smart software, nay
intelligent software, nay
knowledge based software,
and mystery solved,
and a gimmick to get others to bite...
Ironically, on DEC-10,
VAX hardware were configured with
early AI software, but that's extra
credit...
Back in a time of NDAs
(Non Disclosure Agreements),
sign this paper so you can
get to work on something really
important, really really risky, and
like other secrets, likely a lie,
and a trap, if it is dangerous,
or doesn't work, you can't say...
Lest, your job, legal threats,
all assets, family, etc is at risk...
Enter a lot of people who rebelled
against it (ironically Rage Against the
Machine (RATM) is the mystery band
behind EKENH9ActionCamera2017
reference "those who wear badges
also burn crosses" or similar
Song name: Killing in the name
(more relevant gun people and
likely hunters who kill deer,
as opposed to the green/white
pacifist crowd...
Also, ironically, I was at Woodstock '99
sunburned so badly the first day
and hiding from much of it,
but RATM and others played
and there are others' YouTube
video up of it, yep Woodstock '99
burned, no I didn't, just hiding under
trailers earlier to stay out of the painful
sun, but $5 water and commercialism
on Rome Air Force Base B52 bombers
landing strip, wasn't 1969's
Max Yager's (sp?) Bethel called
Woodstock's Farm, etc, etc...)
Anyways, assembly, they call it
building and making,
more marketing terms,
and have partnered with/coopted?
the free and open source community
in the "Made by you with Google"
and a weblink similar
http://AIYProjects.WithGoogle.com/voice
...
Chapter 1 Vapour speak
Typical of AI, smoke and mirrors,
about what it actually is,
while not really saying,
that magic detail left out, etc...
But the lure might be set,
so read on...
Chapter 2 Your ... kit
Cardboard box to assemble,
read fold two parts, try to get it right,
numbered folds, pictures,
what could be easier,
until you try, missing those things
of gene folding algorithms.
think mind bending backflips,
and inverted somersaults,
Plus opening two antistatic bags,
but no precautions on handling
static sensitive components,
(guess just run to the store
and buy another? Nope, too tired,
middle of the night, out of money,
dog ate my homework
while on deadline, etc)
Mostly wires and simple parts,
what could be easier?
aren't you smart enough?
type challenges
Rubik's cube, and Mensa,
this is not...
Double sided tape, who doesn't have that,
around holiday shopping and
gift wrapping time 'o year?
or use a glue gun,
I've got one around somewhere,
but too lazy to find, might want to leave it
partially unassembled, and decide
later, no mention of taking it apart
again, nor really fire safety with
cardboard box (thinking stronger
for take out/carry around??
but WiFi/BlueTooth signals
have to go thru), maybe translucent
like my folding camping dishware/gear...)
(3 inch diameter?) speaker goes in
where holes are, and
take out MicroSD memory card for safety,
(no mention of strong electric fields
with a magnet speaker, and near
sensitive SMT components and
it's dry and cold in the winter,
so static, no wrist band, nonstatic
mat, only professionals, serious
hobbyists, or others might have...)
Chapter 4 Software
Etcher.io, previously met in
NoVASystemic2017 packaging
RPI into a small tablet kit,
with Kano, but it's assuming
coming from a WinDoze
or Mac environment, not already
on the target platform the Linux
ARM RPi3...
So no help there, CLI
(https://etcher.io/cli/ is experimental
and likely gives M$ control of your machine
with their required dependencies...
and you wonder why it doesn't work,
your data gets published, etc...)
down to git repositories, and
download and build from source,
but it's PHP or similar web dev
magic (read crap?) stuff,
not classic Perl, Python, curl, wget,
nor shell scripting...
So finally find AIY Voice file
HACKING.md or similar
in the source code git
which says how the dated 9-11 .xy
or similar ISO MicroSD image
was created...
And start loading software on
one of the few MicroSD cards
I've got left, I want to use
the one I already have running
on the RPi3 instead of
another $10(-$40+) 32Gig that the
4kish camera eats easily,
in a day, or less, say in the snow,
when not freezing, literally,
have to pull battery with the tampon
like cord, yep it did that, again,
in the middle of the night, pre storm,
"Houston, There might be a problem..."
Well, checkpoint gave a loudish
speaker test, but the Mic may not
be working on my Voice
"Testing 1,2,3": nothing back,
and out for the day, sell past the
1.5 hours they say it takes,
but all the special sauce and
circumstances, they don't consider,
so no joy, not working,
and don't want to sign up for
expensive and likely trapping
web based corporate $tuff...
For $10 more in the bitbucket
to use an existing RPi3 by putting
something else on top,
have some other places to plug stuff in,
another speaker, maybe use the second
Voice kit speaker on, and cut the board
trace for stereo?
and other chapters for basic hardware
stuff like flash an LED from RPi,
DC motor control,
servo, etc,
all intended to be driven by voice
something a $200 list price
WowWee CHIP does without
connecting to Borg like Google
for $$$ and privacy problems
already known for Home
and other finished products
like ECHO, etc...
While anonymously training voice
technology to work on odd voices like
mine, others with more speech/ hearing
problems/challenges/disabilities,
may have it even worse,
thinking deaf students, and others,
but wouldn't it be nice to have something
that....
Idear
..responds automagically to the
likely drunk slurring in passing by
volumes (Doppler like?) from a
pickup truck, around holiday time,
especially, prep for New Years' Eve,
SuperBowl, and other excuses
others drink, including
AnyReasonWhatSoEver:
"Get the F*** of the road, asswipe/
$VariableDiminuativeSlur"
"You should be on the trail",
when so few trails go the way
I want/need, and storms prevent,
steams flood out underneath
(snorkel and mask
standard equipment... tm pending),
even just darkness and park's closed
(fine print is commuters have say
someplaces 5a-8p or so, but like
other parks and some interstates
no stopping, emergency only, etc
read the fine print on some trails,
federal, regional and state parks,
etc), plus hunters and other predators
think they own it, me, and everything
else in the world...
Besides share the road,
don't harass bikers, and others,
and road rage, public drunkenness, etc
charges await you, it was recorded,
and automagically sent to e911, Hah!
or similar geeky response to bullying,
brutality and other nastiness...
Not to mention the
Computing Across America
ComputingAcrossAmericaBook
like security system,
Behemoth/Winnabiko
updated to open source and
Linux based technology for
commuting and tour history,
and/or blurb to avoid
repeating multiple times per hour,
with every curious passerby/
lookieloo (sp?)...
Among others mentioned up here...
Come to think of it...
GoogleEar2014 rings a bell...
Modified Text
What's Missing?
The magic sauce,
only you can provide,
if you are smart enough,
rich enough,
connected enough,
etc...
What Can Be Found?
Too many ways to spend money,
poor and disabled probably don't have...
What Can Not Be Found?
The magic bullet for it...
How To Analyze?
Lenses
developers
Always more to do,
more to learn,
more to buy,
but is it worth it?
Will it work?
How much time will it take?
What will it cost?
Retailers
Just sell the stuff,
don't think too much,
more to stock,
inventory, etc...
Big Money
Millions of home microphones
and speaker systems went out
from Amazon, and others,
maybe we can make money off
of this...
(read Trojan microphone in the home(s))
small pockets
another thing to buy to keep
up with the Jones...
kids
I thought we could try it,
but it takes hardware skills,
no soldering, but glue gun,
or double sided tape,
which I can't find...
and credit card billing information?
Parent(s) and other CareGivers
WTF? I thought this was supposed
to be fun and not expensive...
I found the Phillips 00 screwdriver,
(the stepFXActivityTracker2017
contained one, btw, and runs longer
with a fresh battery, ($1 MicroCenter had
1620s, and other places $3-4+
now only resets itself,
once in a while now,so back off data
write it down, no BlueTooth sending,
usb charging, etc like FitBit...)
Maybe a prepaid card, that would
at least have a spending limit...
and how do I turn this thing off?
Plus maybe it will get the domestic
violence stuff going on nearby...
Hmmm....
The Society of Mind?
Advanced course:
What is it?
Why would I want it?
and how to think about it?
Learn on the exemplars,
differences?
Learn period?
How to learn?
Metaknowledge?
Ph.D. thesis?
Minsky?
MIT?
WTF?
Assumptions
Technology is good...
Dreaming is good...
Dreamworks (tm elsewhere) is real...
Nightmarish on the horizon,
but keep the faith,
see all above...
Time Limits
It's just a fad, that AI stuff
will blow over,
RPis are small scale,
quad core will yield to
OctoCore,
4k is coming,
etc...
Run out of money,
Merch takes it all,
Google and others own you,
etc, etc...
Free time, instead of infinitely funded
research environments, deep pockets,
deep learning, and AI/MachineLearning
is never finished anyways, so stay tuned...
Conclusion
Summary of experience or similar
We can't hear you, you're not buying
stuff anyways, don't have a credit card,
so no good to us,
get out of my store,
try phone support instead...
I had ironically run into some
Severn, MD hackerspace people
UnAllocatedSpace (UAS)
one week while trolling the
DIY section of a MicroCenter,
(they had a 7? year anniversary
with some really geeky stuff,
wish I had been to the party,
but alas schedule conflicts,
long distance, energy levels, etc...)
for cheap open box returns and
other clearance items, and
said it was on my list,
they had a new mag on
hackerspaces, qualified for a box,
and would save one for me...
Anyways, when the cardboard box kit
went down to $10, I bought one,
(link says it's back up to $26 or so...)
others overheard nearby said
I wouldn't like it...
(for one thing it's a red button,
not MicroCenter's page is green,
but small diff...)
But they wanted to hear what I
thought about it...
As a cheap Voice HAT,
maybe useful,
lure into AI, likely,
but the cloud stuff,
even if free, the legalese and
Google owning, even IFF
benevolent, instead of predatory,
risky, maybe collect all my little
RPi1s, RPi2s, Zeros, ZeroWs, etc
and make something to process,
in a mini Beowulf Cray type
arrangement what a proprietary
toy WowWee CHIP can do
limited voice recognition on board,
eventually to make a replacement
RoboServicePet/ Muscovy Duck,
MuscovyMissing2017
MuscovyDuck2016
when the CHIP gets rained on,
or I crash,
CHIP minis aka Chippies are too
expensive (~$40 if you can still find them
this time of year...),
I've already invested what little
I have into x,y,z
x=EKENH9ActionCamera2017
y=this/self GoogleAIYVoiceKit2017
and
z=MemoryComplex2016
feeding all of the above...
So will see, rant/play
and relax and calm while
MungedMetaData2017
and others
awaits more of my time
and limited energy...
Links
MicroCenter.com
search AIYVoice?
http://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx?Ntt=aiy+voice+kit
http://MagPi.cc
http://raspberryPi.org/MagPi
annual subscription about $130 US
or 3 issues quarterly at ~$40+ US?
http://imsnews.com/magpi
(USA)
MagPi Essentials 10
English pound 3.99
ISBN 978-1-912047-71-0
UPC 9 781912 047710
(included in AIYVoiceKit)
though mentions Google Cloud
Free Trial offer not available in EU,
(yet?)... pg 49 of 75
https://etcher.io/cli/
https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/voice/
https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/concepts
http://TensorFlow.org
Looks like there is a Lite version
which may work on some likely
higher end Androids (included in Oreo...),
using Go, Ubuntu and Mac OS X (newer)...
Will see...
Small models, little learning, long running,
sounds like fun...
Maybe I should just buy time on
the big money servers,
the logical conclusion,
according to marketing,
but tis the season, right?
/Snark
getting into dependency hell
with the one thing wants another thing
to build it, which wants android development
environment which goes back to bigger
machines (non RPi3), even the bundled
kit from MicroCenter only had a 16 Gig
card, and Android development with
IDE like Bazel,
tensorflow,
data for above, etc will quickly eat
up a small card, for a supposedly simple
device and project...
Discussion
A place for feedback on the page presented
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Increase your GeekCred?
And/Or die trying?
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- lots to look up, and you have to do
- the footwork for some of this,
- it's your homework, not mine,
- I've got even more stalkers
- and other stuff to deal with...
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- reworking some sentences
- adding missing words
- and data missing
- a little typo cleanup
- etc
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20171210 aka DEC-10 Jerry
- Jerry created this page to log a tease
- marketing device, and rabbit hole,
- preholiday (sp?), and in a winter snow day
- weekend,
- big time sink, here is one...
- plus make situations uniform across another
- one of the exemplar cases...
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