Now create your own AI voice assistant

The Matrix Voice development board is a  Pi add-on you can use to build your own voice assistant.
Some people have an affinity for programming and development. I’m not one of them. On first glance it seemed incredibly complex. Yet, somehow we can managed to make it through the project thanks in no small part to the excellent tutorials and documentation available at the Hackster.io website.
The Voice board doesn’t look like much, but it packs all the features you need into a 3.5 inch disc that mounts directly to a Raspberry Pi computer. With it you’re getting eight dedicated microphones and an FPGA to handle all the algorithms and audio processing.
We were also able to check out the predecessor to the Voice, the Matrix Creator, a board that’s a little more robust. It’s capable of doing much more than just voice functions thanks to its myriad of additional sensors. It can detect altitude, temperature, humidity, and motion, but It wasn’t ready for building robots or weather balloons just yet, so It stuck to making voice assistants.

The process is largely the same with both devices, but if you’re going to focus on making a smart speaker you’ll save money going with the Voice. In either case you’ll need a Raspberry Pi for it to function.
Aesthetically, both devices look a bit like birth control pills to me when they aren’t plugged into anything.

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But when turned on the lights are actually kind of beautiful. There’s a sense of accomplishment that comes with putting the pieces together to start developing.

Distance Demo

Voice running Amazon Alexa

The entire Alexa project they tried out costs around $100 plus the price of a regular speaker and SD card. The Voice is $55 without the chip that enables Bluetooth and WiFi, and $65 with it, while the Creator is $99. A Raspberry Pi costs about $35, which is a good deal considering it’s the only computer you’ll need to make this work.

You can check out the Matrix Creator here, and the Voice here.
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