I picked up several pogo-plug mobiles because they are really cheap and I had some success in the past using one as a NAS. But now I'm wondering, with all the people using them as webservers, etc. Why not try something more creative? Here's my idea - I'm wondering if the USB port could be repurposed as a sound output and a sound input device? Particularly, utilizing API calls to harness cloud processing power and using the POGOplugs to run input and output (E.G. one dedicated to microphone and one for speaker).
There's the Google Speech API - Converts audio to text in 80 languages.
ALICE - Opensource artificial intelligence "chatbot" which can be fed text via API and output responses.
Then Google has the Cloud Speech API which does the opposite of the input - and it actually sounds pretty natural.
So basically, I'd like to mount it to my front door and use it to intercept people selling magazines and things like that when I don't feel like talking to them (see illustration).
I'm pretty new to linux/debian so I'm trying to figure out what software would be best to accomplish what I'm trying to do.
There's the Google Speech API - Converts audio to text in 80 languages.
ALICE - Opensource artificial intelligence "chatbot" which can be fed text via API and output responses.
Then Google has the Cloud Speech API which does the opposite of the input - and it actually sounds pretty natural.
So basically, I'd like to mount it to my front door and use it to intercept people selling magazines and things like that when I don't feel like talking to them (see illustration).
I'm pretty new to linux/debian so I'm trying to figure out what software would be best to accomplish what I'm trying to do.