It was good to catch this on twitter. Marcelo Jose Rovai flagged his project as Building an Intelligent Voice Assistant, using a Raspberry Pi and Arduino from scratch!

The clock is based on the Arduino Nano, you can connect it to the Arduino IoT Cloud, you can control the clock from the smartphone app and even voice control via the Alexa assistant.

DIY Twinky Arduino robot personal assistant 12:40 pm October 8, 2018 By Julian Horsey Using an Arduino Mega microcontroller, a new personal assistant has been created, taking inspiration from Jibo.

The Arduino gets a Bluetooth attachment and a set of code. Then you'll need Android Meets Robots, an app that lets you pair voice recognition with any Bluetooth module.

The Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition is just like a Google Nest Mini in that you can use a wake word to talk to it ("Okay Nabu," in this case), it will respond, and it can control devices ...

Home Assistant announced today the availability of the Voice Preview Edition, its own design of a living-room-friendly box to offer voice assistance with home automation. Having used it for a few ...

Can you manage your house with a local, no-cloud voice assistant? Mostly, yes. If you're tired of Alexa and Google listening, a DIY option is possible.

With custom add-ons available for free, Home Assistant gives me the power to control my entire voice pipeline.

This hack puts them together to use an Alexa voice command to open and close your blinds. DIY hacker Yavin0427 demonstrates the sweet setup in the video above.