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In my previous post I mentioned Project Sinos. Now, there is a large step towards an installation script. Installation Script May Contain Errors Please note that the installation script is still in an experimental stage and can contain all kinds of errors !  To ensure that the script does not conflict with your own configuration of your Raspberry Pi 3, please check it before running. Installation Sources For Sinos The installation sources can be found on GitHub under the following link: (link not available yet) Download bot files. main.zip setup.sh For installation, both files (sinos.zip and setup.sh) must be downloaded and located in the same directory. Then a call to setup.sh with root rights is sufficient (you may need to make setup.sh executable by calling chmod +x setup.sh ). After this, the installation and configuration should run. Errors may occur during installation. These have to be considered and corrected in detail. There is no guarantee for the...

After my previous smart home project with Snips.ai failed due to Sonos buying Snips, I was forced to find an alternative to offline speech recognition with Snips.ai. Project Sinos Unfortunately, there were no real open source alternatives. At least I couldn't find one. So I took matters into my own hands. Project Sinos was born. ("Sinos" is a pure artificial word, derived from the Latin Sinus.) CMU Sphinx - How To Listen Offline The first and apparently biggest problem was finding an open source software for offline speech recognition. To my astonishment, this was solved very quickly after I discovered CMU Sphinx . Developed by Carnegie Mellon University, it is the offline speech recognition tool. In addition, quite a few languages are supported (including German). It has little, very little competition. After the first quick successes, however, there were considerable problems in recognizing specific words in order to identify intents. I was able to f...