Making a Google Assistant.....

[cameron shanks]

Hello everyone, 

I was wondering if it was posable to make a Google Assistant and I don't know how I would do it.

If I find something that could be able to help other people I will post it here...

thanks -cam

[cameron shanks]

I know i can make a google thing to be able to do more with this website

https://ifttt.com/google_assistant

 

[badreg]

You're talking about creating an AI assistant from scratch? It's not happening without a large team of engineers, developers, stacks of hardware and about a billion dollars in seed money.

[cameron shanks]

I thought that you could probably just fond some google dev soft wear to make a smart speaker

[imbrock]

I've been thinking about working on a project like this for a while.

 

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4080

 

I figure that could be a good starting point, then after getting that base bit going I wanted to look seeing how much stuff I could route through open source speech to text software using google services as a fallback. I think its doable, to different degrees depending on how much work goes into it.

[TheStyne]

Probably don't bother. Making an AI is not a 5 minute exercise, and a Google Home mini is not that expensive.

[cameron shanks]

i have found this, this is what i have been thinking about, so i do think its posible 

 

[cameron shanks]

23 minutes ago, imbrock said:

I've been thinking about working on a project like this for a while.

 

https://www.adafruit.com/product/4080

 

I figure that could be a good starting point, then after getting that base bit going I wanted to look seeing how much stuff I could route through open source speech to text software using google services as a fallback. I think its doable, to different degrees depending on how much work goes into it.

if you wouldn't mind could I help and prove them wrong XD

jk but 2 heads are better than 1

[cameron shanks]

18 minutes ago, Fixinit1 said:

Probably don't bother. Making an AI is not a 5 minute exercise, and a Google Home mini is not that expensive.

yea i know that its not but its the point fo making it so it feels like you have done something

[imbrock]

22 minutes ago, cameron shanks said:

if you wouldn't mind could I help and prove them wrong XD

jk but 2 heads are better than 1

From the research of done into it so far it can mostly be done with off the shelf software. There seem to be a few decent speech to text programs that can be used, though i still have to pick up that kit off adafruit. I want to try and custom bake my own whole set at some point but that one seems good for a starting point.

[gundamMC]

I've been working on a project that basically creates virtual assistants through deep learning. Here's the link to it if you want to check it out: https://www.animius.org/ (or Github at https://github.com/gundamMC/Animius).

 

It's still in dev so some things may not work yet.

[camjocotem]

I assume the project is more of a tinkering thing than you actually needing an AI assistant?

I was thinking of doing something similar a while back though not exactly AI per se.

I was looking at using pre-programmed phrases for specific tasks and using AWS Transcribe(speech recognition) / AWS Polly(text to speech)

May be something you're interested in x]