Arduino best to build a Voice/Home Assistant with Snips.ai?

Hey guys, complete newbie to the arduino and raspberry pi community. I've been searching for anyone in the hobbyist community to ask where I could begin building my own voice assistant with Snips.

They offer a private programmable assistant which you can load apps to do things, and for starters I'd like to integrate snips to Spotify to control it via voice since I exercise a lot at home.

Later down the line possibly light dimming and brightening features.

Could anyone recommend whether I could do all this with an Arduino board or a Raspberry Pi would be better for building a voice assistant that can control Spotify?

Sorry if this is a rather novice question. Thanks!

Could anyone recommend whether I could do all this with an Arduino board or a Raspberry Pi would be better for building a voice assistant that can control Spotify?

You assume that we know what Spotify is and how to use it.

The Arduino will not be a good choice for processing audio data, which would be necessary to convert speech to computer-sensible data.

I'll look up on Raspberry pi as well... thanks! Just looking out if anyone else has experience in this and could guide accordingly

Snips will run on a Pi I doubt that there is any way to run it on an Arduino though you could use an Arduino to manage some of the 'bells-and-whistles'.

minimalbeats:
I'll look up on Raspberry pi as well... thanks! Just looking out if anyone else has experience in this and could guide accordingly

Here is a link to building this on a Pi, it also uses an Arduino

@ardly I suppose more specific functionalities could be integrated for Arduino use then yes?
Let me check out that link (might have overlooked it when googling).

Do you guys dabble with rasp much as well?

I just read up on snips recently and looks interesting since i'm not sure if there are other.. frameworks? like an open source alexa.. i saw there's mycroft or so

Thanks for the reference btw, much reading is needed on my part

minimalbeats:
@ardly I suppose more specific functionalities could be integrated for Arduino use then yes?
Let me check out that link (might have overlooked it when googling).

Do you guys dabble with rasp much as well?
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There is a lot of overlap between what can be done with a Pi and an Arduino. As a rough rule Pi is better for audio/visual and Arduino is better for hardware interfacing but both can do both to some extent. The BIG difference is that the Pi runs an operating system, the Arduino does not it just executes your sketch.

There is no reason not to use both a Pi and an Arduino in a project if that is a good solution.

I think a lot of Arduino people use Pi as well. However it would be bad form to post questions about Pi here. The Pi has its own forum.

Here is another link that may help.

I hadn't heard of them until your brought it up but sounds really interesting. Checked out their site and came across this https://makers.snips.ai/

I'd probably initiate with a Pi to be honest and follow one of their dev tutorials to see what kind of scaling you can do (i'm assuming quite a bit after reading their use cases). You COULD also get one of their maker kits that most likely comes stacked with what you need.

ardly:
As a rough rule Pi is better for audio/visual and Arduino is better for hardware interfacing but both can do both to some extent. The BIG difference is that the Pi runs an operating system, the Arduino does not it just executes your sketch.

There is no reason not to use both a Pi and an Arduino in a project if that is a good solution.

I think a lot of Arduino people use Pi as well. However it would be bad form to post questions about Pi here. The Pi has its own forum.

Here is another link that may help.
Snips - Home Assistant

Thanks for breaking that down for me, Pi running an operating system seems attractive to create a multifaceted home assistant with the help of Arduino bits. I'll make sure to address necessary questions to the right forums then. Cheers!

  • The rasp forum seems to take some time to post since things need approval so i went here to quickly get opinions xD

@electricboogie not too sure what the maker kit's main board runs, pi i suppose? will see if i can save up for that when payday comes :slight_smile: thanks mate