Re: Technology
Not tried putting bacon through one of those - next time I'm in a Premier Inn will give it a try
Posts by Quinlan
3 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Dec 2018
Pork pulled: Plug jerked out of beacon of bacon delight
Brit startup Graphcore tossed a £200m early Christmas pressie for machine learning CPU
Forget your deepest, darkest secrets, smart speakers will soon listen for sniffles and farts too
Monday 17th December 2018 15:19 GMT
Stop Alexa listening when you don't want...
The hard way: build a sound-proof box with Alexa inside. Customise a Rasp Pi to listen for your command word and relay only the following sound-segment. Extract Alexa's audio via 3.5mm socket etc.
The easier way: press the mute button on Alexa to disable mic. Buy an Alexa Voice Remote - but this does mean you have to physically have the remote with you and press the mic button to send a command.
Another hard way: as above but hack the Alexa Voice Remote and use a Raspberry Pi to detect your unique command word upon which it 'closes' the contact of the Alexa Voice Remote switch (yes get your soldering iron out) so that you can send your voice instruction.
Nice weekend project ...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
