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That's why DJ did publish the Openbot libraries

Correction: OpenBot was not published or created by DJ. It's a community project by Tom Briden.

@Chrissi, thanks for the correction.

@Richard R, Looks like we were typing at the same time. You said it better than me.....

Alan

Maybe DJ needs to create a Linux based "all in one" EZ-Pi? Take an Raspberry pi, add more IO, and a Linux based ARC and you get "EZ as Pi" version 5 ... ... Does Linux have text to speech and speech rec?

@Richard R I don't know about other lynx computers, but the pi has 2 usb's and can control webcams with microphones or just a regular microphone.

I know, I have one... but who says a new board can't be developed with more microcontroller like IO ...?

Yes, there is TTS and Speech Reco for Linux. I know for TTS you can get as good quality as anything available for Windows. Not sure about the speech recognition. Would need a whole lot more power than in a Pi to do it right though (although you could always do what Android and iOS do and pass off most of the speech reco to a cloud service and not need too much local processing).

Alan

@Alan... I don't think it is beyond DJ's abilities to develop an EZ-pi type board as an all in one.... Perhaps a pi in the sky maybe ? But cool to think about nevertheless...

Certainly could be done. Enough of us are working on bots with embedded computers that I think we have also shown that the market is there.

Alan