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by walterbell 1309 days ago
Is there a good, affordable, open-ish dev platform with an array of far-field microphones? If not, would it be possible to teardown an Amazon Echo Dot and attach their microphone array to an ODROID Arm SBC? Might depend on whether the Alexa microphone array is using a dedicated audio processor chip for echo cancellation.

A web search finds this 4-mike array for $63, https://www.robotshop.com/en/seeedstudio-respeaker-mic-array...

Google had an audio dev kits for schools based on their TPU and RPi, https://aiyprojects.withgoogle.com/voice/