{"id":563997,"date":"2026-07-23T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563997\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:00:10","slug":"voice-control-toolkit-comes-to-a-pico-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/563997\/","title":{"rendered":"Voice Control Toolkit Comes To A Pico Near You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voice-controlled appliances are nothing new. What might be new, however, is [Moonshine AI] running it all <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/moonshine-ai\/moonshine\/tree\/main\/micro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">locally on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The voice interface is roughly divided into three parts: voice activity detection, SpellingCNN speech-to-text and a neural text to speech. The speech to text supports up to 50 tokens, and can be re-trained to support any specific words you want. It runs a simple loop: detect voice activity, listen for (command) tokens, process them in C++, use the TTS to reply, and repeat.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to be fair, it is a bit of a squeeze: 3.6 MiB of the available 4 MiB FLASH and 468 KiB SRAM on a stock Pi Pico 2 board. It leaves you with just about enough space to write a small amount of extra software, but it\u2019ll be a challenge to fit anything substantial. Still, fitting three different types of AI model needed to make this possible in such a space is quite impressive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Voice-controlled appliances are nothing new. What might be new, however, is [Moonshine AI] running it all locally on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":563998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-563997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}