CHAPTER 3

Raspberry Pi Implements a Google Voice Assistant

CHAPTER 1 SHOWED YOU HOW to connect the inexpensive Google Voice Kit to a RasPi and have the RasPi respond to spoken voice commands. Chapter 2 showed you how to interconnect a Google Home device to a RasPi and again have the RasPi respond to spoken voice commands detected by the Home device. In this chapter, I will show you how to use the RasPi all by itself to emulate a Google Voice Assistant and respond directly to spoken voice commands. This approach will be the least costly of all the Google Voice Assistant implementations but will likely require the most effort on your part to duplicate the demonstrations.

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