This post is part of the Voice Assistant on Raspberry Pi series.
Two Raspberry Pi 4s, a few hours of setup, and at the end you have a voice assistant running entirely on your local network. Before writing a single line of .NET code, here’s the setup for both Pis.
[Read More]This post is part of the Voice Assistant on Raspberry Pi series.
Both Pis are configured. Time to write some code. The goal: validate the full audio pipeline on the pi-client, from button press to spoken response, without a real LLM. We hardcode a reply for now. The LLM comes in article #3.
The complete code for this article is available on GitHub.
[Read More]Every time I changed code, I’d Alt-Tab to the terminal, arrow up, Enter. dotnet test. Wait. Check. Back to the editor. Repeat.
It’s not the end of the world. But over a full day, it adds up, mostly in lost focus. The annoying part is that I already had dotnet watch in my workflow for hot-reloading a web app. I just never thought to ask what else it could do.