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1 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 2 comments about the project.
Docs: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
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Interesting ESP32 and voice ideas for offline music playback
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Interesting point about the ESP32 and music playback! I've been tinkering with similar projects, and it’s wild how much potential these little devices have. I remember trying to…
quapster on HN
Objections
Needs more documentation on protocols, auth and sequence diagrams for true open source
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To make it open source in the fullest sense one needs to document what youve done. This esp repo could use some details on what protocols the hardware speaks, sequence diagrams,…
tarasglek on HN
Requests
Offline ESP32 music player that finds music on a memory card
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Hello, Maybe possible to propose as challenge an ESP32 project to play music according to what is stored on the memory card (completely offline)? There are already voice…
nunobrito on HN
Questions
Can an ESP32 really run WebRTC?
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To make it open source in the fullest sense one needs to document what youve done. This esp repo could use some details on what protocols the hardware speaks, sequence diagrams,…
tarasglek on HN
Alternatives named
Snips open-source voice recognition on Raspberry Pi
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There was one a startup called Snips https://snips.ai/ which made an open-source voice recognition engine running on an RPi.
bestouff on HN