Depending on who you’re talking to, Google Assistant is either a tool capable of responding quickly and clearly to audio queries in natural language, or a noisier and less useful version of Wolfram Alpha. [William Franzin] decided that it would be particularly cool to offer the service on a radio station – and that is exactly what he did.
[William] got the idea for this project after the first game with the Internet Radio Linking Project, a system that uses VoIP technology to connect radio networks over the Internet. There is already an IRLP node, it seemed quite natural to turn it into a portal to the wider Internet through integration with Google Assistant. Early work involved activating the assistant with DTMF tones, but [William] did not stop there by using Picovoice, it became possible to use the system with the custom keyword “Bumblebee”.
[William]The project can be especially useful when outside the cell cover, but needs little information such as a meteorological report or interesting facts to settle a campfire dispute. In addition, it is even possible to control the IRLP node via voice commands.
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