November 2018
Beginner
472 pages
13h 5m
English
Content preview from Learn Robotics Programming
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Installing the Respeaker software
The Respeaker HAT has software and drivers to enable it. These are installed from a GitHub repository owned by Seeed Studio (yes there really are 3 e's!), who created the Respeaker 2 HAT. This will take about 10-15 minutes to perform:
git clone https://github.com/respeaker/seeed-voicecard.gitcd seeed-voicecardsudo ./install.shsudo reboot
After a reboot, it's time to see if the Raspberry Pi has set up the sound card. In a PuTTY session type aplay -l to list playback devices. In the output, it should contain a line saying card 1: seeed2micvoicec if the card has been picked up.
Similarly, we can check the recording devices by typing arecord -l and, in the output, you should find a line containing the microphone ...