One factor some individuals hate about voice management is that it is advisable to have a course of all the time operating, listening for the wake phrase. In case your system isn’t completely locally-hosted, that may elevate some privateness eyebrows. Maybe that’s a part of what impressed [SpannerSpencer] to create this twenty fourth century resolution: a Comm Badge straight out of Star Trek: The Subsequent Era he makes use of to manage his good house.
This hack is as slick as it’s easy. The shiny comm badge is definitely metallic, bought from an internet vendor that certainly pays all applicable license charges to Paramount. It was designed for magnetic mounting, and you realize what else has a magnet to stay it to issues? The M5StickC PLUS2, a useful ESP32 dev equipment. Because the M5Stick is worn beneath the shirt, its magnet connected to the comm badge, some options (just like the touchscreen) are unused, however that’s okay. You employ what you’ve, and we are able to’t argue with how straightforward the {hardware} aspect of this hack comes collectively.
[Spanner] reviews that faucets to the comm badge are simply detected by the onboard accelerometer, and that the M5Stick’s microphone has no bother selecting up his voice. If the voice recordings are barely muffled by his shirt, the Groq transcription API getting used doesn’t appear to note. From Groq, these transcriptions are despatched to [Spanner]’s Residence Assistant as pure language instructions. Code for the com-badge portion is on the market by way of GitHub; presumably should you’re the type of one who needs this, you both have HA arrange or can work out how.
It appears price declaring that the pc in Star Trek: TNG did have a wake phrase: “laptop”. Alternatively it appeared the badges have been used to interface with it simply as a lot because the wake phrase on display screen, so this use case remains to be present correct. You may watch it within the demo video beneath, however alas, at no level does his Residence Assistant speak again. We will solely hope he’s skilled a text-to-speech mannequin to sound like Majel Barrett-Roddenberry. A minimum of it provides the right “beep” when receiving a command.
This could pair very properly with the LCARS dashboard we featured in January.
