Voice assistant to help track calories throughout the day.
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Respeaker 4mic hat for raspberry pi: https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker_4_Mic_Array_for_Raspberry_Pi/ . Remember to follow the setup steps when first running to set up microphone.
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Used this repo to light up hat, but used all seperate code for speech recognition and speech: https://github.com/respeaker/4mics_hat There code was also modified to use the APA201-pi library rather than relying on local files.
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Text to voice on Windows used TTS engine (Espeak) https://www.instructables.com/Make-your-Raspberry-Pi-speak/
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Text to voice on raspberry pi used win32com.client import Dispatch
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Backend Database used is now MongoDB for experience. MongoDB Atlas has a free tier with up to 500MB of storage. Will never fill that so feels like a good solution.
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If there are PyAudio issues on Pi then follow this forum for fixes https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1242333
Calories from the Pi are also displayed on the related Calorie Website https://github.com/DJSaunders1997/Calorie-Website
Name Ideas:
KoolKcal CalCounter kcalKounter
CalTrackR