Raspberry Pi AI: Picroft Voice Assistant

Note that I have no association with Mycroft, and that this is not sponsored content.

My previous “Raspberry Pi Google AIY Voice Kit” video is here:

And my “Alexa AI on Raspberry Pi” video is here:

Finally, my recent ExplainingTheFuture video on “AI, Robots & the Future” is here:

Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:58 Hardware
05:13 Getting Picroft
07:44 Setup
11:52 Pairing & Demo
15:41 Config & Skills
20:32 More Pi AI

#Picroft #RaspberryPi #AI #Mycroft #ExplainingComputers

[energyideas]

Love the testing sequence of the microphone.

[trevorberridge]

Well Chris, would't you know it, I actually DO have a Playstation Eye hanging around. I've managed to use it with several applications on laptop and desktop pc as someone once created a driver that can be persuaded to co-operate with non-Playstation systems. As old as it is I always thought it would make a good microphone and/or webcam if only I could get it to run. As someone who previously ran an Alexa-type system on a Raspberry Pi following instructions in one of your videos (I used the recommended usb standalone mini-mic at the time) I am over the moon to see that this new Alexa-like project is compatible with the Playstation Eye out of the box. When I have time I'll try to get this all up and running. Great stuff Chris. You are one of the most inspirational and helpful people on Youtube as far as I'm concerned. You make everything so accessible.

[pezictusfish]

Voice sounds so cool, robotic enough. Picroft's voice was also cool!

[rickbonari]

Yes, more AI tutorials with raspberry pi and jetson nano. Thanks for your great videos

[LMacNeill]

Thank you for the reminder about the new video on your Explaining the Future channel. I'd forgotten that you were publishing one video a month there now, and I hadn't watched it yet.

[foobarbarfoo]

Another option for the microphones is recently designed ** Miko ** USB microphone based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 MCU (for a much improved SNR), for local speech-to-text over deep learning models to be even more private :)

[osborne]

tried mycroft few years ago, time to have another play. thanks for your videos

[srtcsb]

Nice improvements over the 2017 video info. Thanks for another great one Chris.

[An.Individual]

11:37 Chris needn't bother masking the audio because he shown the reg code on the video 🤣

[PazuzuDaemon]

This channel is so british I want some tea and jaffa cakes. Seriously speaking, thanks for all the content, always top notch!

[davidbeno]

Great video! Please continue with this topic!

[lorderectus]

The pi is excited about its assistant!

[laupetre]

I love your channel and have been watching it for the past year or so. You are always very informative, clear and humorous.
I would love more AI topics

[raywood]

Hello Chris, Another excellent video. Please continue this AI series. I would be interested to see if this can be implemented on an existing pi4 setup (overclocked, pwm fan script running, and oled display script running) rather than from scratch. Perhaps on a VM or on a docker setup? Very interested to see the GPIO control as well. Real world pi applications. Keep up the great work. Thank you.

[videlivideli]

Thank you very much for your outstanding presentation Professor Barnatt. I had long wanted to experiment with voice-activated AI, but hadn't made up my mind to do so because the other "free" services don't respect privacy. This excellent video has provided me with the existence of a private and open source solution. At the moment I have a very tight work schedule but I am planning to experiment with Mycroft for the end of January 2022, but on the Linux platform.

Please I would love to see more Mycroft AI.Greetings.

[Byc]

nice introduction! Thanks a lot for the cool project

[gordonreeder]

Thank you for this video. I have been aware of the Mycroft project and am glad to see that it has produced usable results. And wouldn't you know it, I just happen to have a spare Pi laying around. Oh. But I think with a name like Mycroft, the British male dialect would be most appropriate.

[electron-]

18:04 "sudo shutdown 0" works, too!😁

[billbliss]

Thanks for sharing this. I'll be following these instructions very soon to set up my own Picroft!

[WalterW]

This is the most disinterested AI I've ever heard. I love it!