We find that when developers and aspiring developers spend time learning something, there is often a desire to apply it to something practical that can be used in everyday life. Here we aim to share a couple of examples of this type of hands-on kit and give you the information you need to decide if this is the right kit for you as a techy music enthusiast.

ReSpeaker Core v2.0 ($99)

Tech Spec Details:
This kit allows you to create great sounding voice and sound interfaces. The board can be used as a base to create smart assistant capable speakers and is highly flexible. The core runs Debian OS, features a Rockchip RK3229 Quad-Core Cortex-A, and is powered by a high-performance Axol Core module.

Potential applications for the product are smart speakers, intelligent voice assistants, voice recorders, voice conferencing systems, voice interacting robots and car voice assistants to name a few.

Specs

• Dimensions: 100mm x 96mm x 18mm
• Weight: 180 g
• ARM Quad-Core Corex-A7 up to 1.5GHz / ARM Mail-400MP2 GPU
• 1 GB RAM DDR3
• Microphone: 8 Channel ADC for 6 Microphone Array and 2 Loopbacks
• Headset connector: 3.5mm Audio Headset Connector
• Speaker connector: JST 2.0 Output Connector for 8 Ohm Speakers
• Video output: HDMI 2.0 (driver not yet available)
• WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n
• Bluetooth 4.0
• Flash: 4GB eMMC on-board
• SD card slot
• 3 USB hosts/OTG
• 1 USB power
• 1 Grove socket, support I2C and digital port
• 6 GPIO
• 1 Debug UART
• 12 programmable LEDs

Features

• Debian-Based Linux System
• SDK for Speech Algorithms with Full Documents
• C++ SDK and Python Wrapper
• Speech Algorithms and Features
• Keyword Spotting (Wake-Up)
• BF (Beamforming)
• DoA (Direction of Arrival)
• NS (Noise Suppression)
• AEC (Acoustic Echo Cancellation) and AGC (Automatic Gain Control)
• All-in-One Solution with High-Performance SoC
• 8 Channel ADC for 6 Microphone Array and 2 Loopbacks (Hardware Loopback)

If you’re looking for something similar to the above but not 100% sure if its got everything you want, then have a look at the VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer + Ultimate Dock. This tiny computer is versatile and can be used as a VPN gateway to secure your network, a private cloud to store your data or an airplay music streaming station.

It’s currently 14% off at $42.99. You can even enhance the functions by writing code for the VoCore 2 in C, Java, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, and more.The VoCore2 Mini Linux Computer + Ultimate Dock has 58 reviews and a 4.5 star rating.

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