2025-06-29

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In this video we will be having a closer look at voice assistant, voice command, voice recognition or however you want to call it. Now my girlfriend uses such voice commands to control our smart home devices. Only problem is that Alexa is not always reliable. That is why I will be exploring alternatives in this video and hopefully end up with something even better ;-) Let's get started!

Websites that were shown in the video:

https://www.kaggle.com/code/ilyamich/mfcc-implementation-and-tutorial

https://oshwlab.com/carsfan5/spartan6-fpga

https://oshwlab.com/samgilligan/fpga-module-cyclone-10-lp_copy

https://github.com/espressif/esp-skainet

https://www.espressif.com/en/products/socs/esp32-s3

https://wiki.dfrobot.com/SKU_SEN0539-EN_Gravity_Voice_Recognition_Module_I2C_UART#target_6

https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2665.html

https://esphome.io/components/voice_assistant.html

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/builtin_sentences

https://tristam.ie/2024/1126/

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0:00 Alexa Problems?!

1:20 Intro

2:10 How does Voice Recognition Work?

4:20 Trying ESP-Skainet

6:00 Trying a Dedicated Module

8:04 Final ESPNow & HomeAssistant Solution

9:56 Final Assembly & Verdict