I recently picked up the Home Assistant Voice Preview, essentially a smart speaker not unlike a Google Home Mini or an Amazon Echo Dot. The difference is that you control it, creating your own ...

With modern voice assistants we can tell a computer to play our favorite music, check the weather, or turn on a light. Like many of us, [nerdaxic] gave in to the convenience and perceived simplicity ...

We’ve already seen downloadable voice packages that put Yoda, Homer Simpson, and various other characters in charge of your car’s GPS navigation, and now the familiar, synthesized tones of Portal‘s ...

The ReSpeaker Lite is a single-board kit for building your own smart speaker, packing a dual microphone array, mute and user buttons, a 3.5mm out jack, a JST PH-2.0 speaker connector, and an XMOS ...

Sure, a Knight Rider GPS system is cool if you’re in your 40s and remember watching the show when it was first on, but what about people looking for a GPS navigator with a more contemporary cultural ...