CHAPTER 2

Interfacing a Google Home Device with a Raspberry Pi

THIS CHAPTER INCLUDES a detailed discussion of how Google’s Home device works and how it interacts with Google’s Web servers to provide intelligent home-based voice services. The overall Google service is called Google Assistant and is also the same service described in Chapter 1 for the Google Voice Kit. This chapter also has a comprehensive discussion of how to connect a RasPi to a Home device to take advantage of the professional voice-recognition and speech-generation functions. This approach is significantly different from the one taken in Chapter 1, where a Google Voice Kit was connected to a RasPi to enable fairly basic voice recognition and speech generation. That approach ...

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