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The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing Drone Journey – Last Installment

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Introduction to the Drone Journey

Final Installment

This post is the eleventh, and final, post in documenting the steps I went through on my journey to build an autonomous, voice-controlled, face recognizing drone. There are 10 other posts building up to this one which you can find at the end of this post.

Focus of this post

In this post I will share a video of the complete end-to-end demo and share details of the architecture which sits behind it. I will also share information on what I bought/used to bring this all together and relist all the different software, services and node packages in a single place.

Pulling It All Together

A lot of what we have been doing with this project is humanizing the way we communicate with machines/computers/things. That means talking and observing to drive intelligent interaction rather than using a mouse, keyboard or touch screen.

Our Autonomous Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone is a smart drone which showcases, albeit crudely, how interaction with services filled with intelligence is going to evolve. It highlights the importance of cognitive services to the success of organizations in the future.

So with that said take a look at the entire end to end demo in the video below.

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Analytics, Bing Speech API, Cognitive Services, Drone, Internet Of Things, IoT

The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey – Part 8

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Introduction to the Drone Journey

Speech to Text

This post is the eighth post in documenting the steps I went through on my journey to build an autonomous, voice-controlled, face recognizing drone. There are 7 other posts building up to this one which you can find at the end of this post.

Focus of this post

We have come a long way from when we first started with a drone controlled from the computer. In the last post we spent time understanding how to use the Bing Speech API to convert supplied text to speech. In this post we will:

  • Show how you can use the Bing Speech API to derive text from speech.
  • Integrate that approach into our DroneWebServer.js web application and front end HTML so that we can control the drone via speech.

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Analytics, Bing Speech API, Cognitive Services, Drone, Internet Of Things, IoT

The Voice-Controlled, Face Recognizing, Drone Journey – Part 7

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Introduction to the Drone Journey

Text to Speech

This post is the eighth post in documenting the steps I went through on my journey to build an autonomous, voice-controlled, face recognizing drone. There are 7 other posts building up to this one which you can find at the end of this post.

Focus of this post

This post is going to make use of another of the APIs offered by Microsoft Cognitive Services – the Bing Speech API. Back in post 4, seems a long time ago now, I explained how to sign up for the various services and get the API key.

You will need to go back now and ensure you copy the BING Speech API key as we will use that in our next steps.

By the end of this post we will have the drone speaking to us when it lands.

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