Here is a collection of resources to make a smart speaker. Hope we can make an open source one for daily use.
I believe we have enough resources to make an open source smart speaker. Let's do it. Just created a project called smart speaker from scratch on hackaday. Check it out to see what we can make.
The simplified flowchart of a smart speaker is like:
+---+ +----------------+ +---+ +---+ +---+
|Mic|-->|Audio Processing|-->|KWS|-->|STT|-->|NLU|
+---+ +----------------+ +---+ +---+ +-+-+
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+-------+ +---+ +----------------------+ |
|Speaker|<--|TTS|<--|Knowledge/Skill/Action|<--+
+-------+ +---+ +----------------------+
- Audio Processing includes Acoustic Echo Cancellation (AEC), Beamforming, Noise Suppression (NS), etc.
- Keyword Spotting (KWS) detects a keyword (such as OK Google, Hey Siri) to start a conversation.
- Speech To Text (STT)
- Natural Language Understanding (NLU) converts raw text into structured data.
- Knowledge/Skill/Action - Knowledge base and plugins (Alexa Skill, Google Action) to provide an answer.
- Text To Speech
- Snips ⭐ - the first 100% on-device and private-by-design open-source Voice AI platform
- Mycroft ⭐ - a hackable open source voice assistant
- SEPIA 🤖 - Highly customizable, open-source, cross-platform voice assistant and VUI framework (HTML + Java + x)
- Kalliope - a framework that will help you to create your own personal assistant, kind of similar with Mycroft (Both written by Python)
- dingdang robot - a 🇨🇳 voice interaction robot based on Jasper and built with raspberry pi
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Amazon Alexa Voice Service - is the most widely used voice assistant
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It has the smartest brain, its extension called Google Action can be created on a few steps with digitalflow.ai and its Device Action is very suit for home smart devices.
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- Install Snips on Raspberry Pi 3, Linux, osX, iOS and Android
- Mycroft Precise - A lightweight, simple-to-use, RNN wake word listener
- Snowboy - DNN based hotword and wake word detection toolkit
- Honk - PyTorch reimplementation of Google's TensorFlow CNNs for keyword spotting
- ML-KWS-For-MCU - Maybe the most promise for resource constrained devices such as ARM Cortex M7 microcontroller
- Porcupine - Lightweight, cross-platform engine to build custom wake words in seconds
- Mozilla DeepSpeech - A TensorFlow implementation of Baidu's DeepSpeech architecture
- Kaldi
- PocketSphinx - a lightweight speech recognition engine using HMM + GMM
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Snips NLU - a Python library that allows to parse sentences written in natural language and extracts structured information.
- Mimic - Mycroft's TTS engine, based on CMU's Flite (Festival Lite)
- manytts - an open-source, multilingual text-to-speech synthesis system written in pure java
- espeak-ng - an open source speech synthesizer that supports 99 languages and accents.
- ekho - Chinese text-to-speech engine
- WaveNet, Tacotron 2
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Acoustic Echo Cancellation
- SpeexDSP, its python binding speexdsp-python
- EC - Echo Cancelation Daemon based on SpeexDSP AEC for Raspberry Pi or other devices running Linux.
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Direction Of Arrival (DOA) - Most used DOA algorithms is GCC-PHAT
- tdoa
- odas - ODAS stands for Open embeddeD Audition System. This is a library dedicated to perform sound source localization, tracking, separation and post-filtering. ODAS is coded entirely in C, for more portability, and is optimized to run easily on low-cost embedded hardware. ODAS is free and open source.
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- BeamformIt - filter&sum beamforming
- CGMM Beamforming - a reference implementation
- MVDR Beamforming
- GSC Beamforming
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Voice Activity Detection
- WebRTC VAD, py-webrtcvad
- DNN VAD
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Noise Suppresion
- NS of WebRTC audio processing, python-webrtc-audio-processing
- PortAudio, pyaudio
- libsoundio
- ALSA
- PulseAudio
- Pipewire