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by nysska 3680 days ago
Sorry, I might be totally off the base here but why not use IBM Watson for that? It's free for a thousand minutes in a month and it's speech-to-text looks quite good on the first glance.

I was just looking around for a custom solution to have something listening, send it off somewhere to get the text out of the voice command and then respond to keywords/contexts with appropriate custom-made actions. All you need then is to process that and read out the response.
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fizzbatter 3679 days ago
No idea, does IBM Watson have a good in-home hardware device?

I'm not talking about using Echo to do any complex work, i want echo to just be my middle man taking in speech and sending my program the text. With of course, a customizable wake word.

I wasn't aware of IBM Watson having an Echo or Home like device. If it matches my needs, i'm very interested :)

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