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I’ve recently been playing with trying to build a Watson powered home automation system using my Raspberry Pi and some other electronic bits that I have on hand.

There are already a lot of people doing work in this space. One of the most successful projects being JASPER which uses speech to text and an always on background listening microphone to talk to you and carry out actions when you ask it things in natural language like “What’s the weather going to be like tomorrow?” and “What is the meaning of life?” Jasper works using a library called Sphinx developed by Carnegie Mellon University to do speech recognition. However the models aren’t great – especially if you have a british accent.

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