Using our voices to ask a robot to do something and having a voice respond has long been seen as a sign of smarts. Devices around us such as Alexa and Google Assistant have these tools, and being able to program our system to integrate with tools such as these gives us access to this powerful system. Mycroft is a Python-based open source voice system. We will get this running on the Raspberry Pi, by connecting it to a speaker and microphone, and then we will run instructions on our robot based on words we speak.
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- What Mycroft is and an overview of how our system will work
- How to add a speaker/microphone board to a Raspberry Pi
- How to install and configure a Raspberry Pi to run Mycroft
- How to create our own skills code to connect the Voice Assistant to our robot