[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Some more ideas) – PART 9

Some Mycroft A.I. Ideas I developed over time It has been a while now since I came into contact with Mycroft A.I. Till then I have been playing around with it and started the blog post about how to create your own Personal A.I. Assistant blog series. I will shortly continue with that blog series,
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing HASS) – PART 8

On to installing Home Assistant on our device. Like with the KODI installation, this is mostly information widely available on the internet, yet again included within this series for compleness sake. So let’s get started with installing the dependencies if not yet installed. (Not really sure anymore, sorry for this) Next we need to create
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing KODI) – PART 7

Next on the list is to install KODI on our device. This of course is optional, but as my device will end up close to the TV within the livingroom and I would like to have a great mediaplayer that plays all my offline content as well as a lot of online content (the upcoming
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Intermediate Roadmap) – PART 6

As mentioned in my previous blog post, this next blog post is about where we are at and what lies ahead. There are still so much things that I would like to do, create and / or implement at the Home Personal A.I. Assistant project. The next two items where already on the list and
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Orbital Case – Some modding ideas

As already mentioned in the “ordering some goodies” blog post, the nice case I want to use as housing for our [DIY] HOME (PERSONAL AI) ASSISTANT project is the Orbital case from Polypodis – Germany. Now I have not yet ordered one as of yet as I still need to contact them about shipment possibilities
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Preparing the HDMI) – PART 5

Our Personal AI Assistant, of course is more then just a smart speaker. We have a HDMI port on the device, and as explained in my first post where I shared with you my vision about the Personal Assistant. We are going to use the HDMI port as well. A default install of Raspbian however
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[DiY] Home (Personal AI) Assistant (Installing & Configuration) – PART 4

We have identified all the software requirements and we have ordered the goodies. Now it is time to start installing the different components and start the configuration of all different packages. After following this installation instruction we should have a basic system up and running with the latest MyCroft version using the ReSpeaker microphone array
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MyCroft A.I. – The Software Stack

The MyCroft AI core stack consists of multiple software packages that are connected by the core stack. For example, every part of the voice assistant is handled by his own piece of “expertise”. In this blogpost will will give an better explanation of those different parts of this core stack. Under the hood Precise –
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MyCroft AI – Open Source Voice Assistant

MyCroft AI – The world’s first open source voice assistant was created and launched by a startup with the same name. The company MyCroft was set up in 2015 with the aim; “AI for everyone” open source installable on every piece of hardware from computers, to refrigerators, wearables, TVs, cars and so on. What is
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