Slides from Giving Orange a Voice Talk

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Here are the slides from my talk at RSSC yesterday.

 

Giving Orange a Voice: Rebuilding Wake Word & Speech Recognition for Low-Power Robotics!
Orange's original wake word system just got desupported for hobbyists — so it's time for a rebuild. This talk covers swapping in OpenWakeWord for wake detection, updating the local Vosk speech-to-text language graph, and the real tradeoffs behind sticking with a lightweight CPU-based STT engine instead of heavier AI models like Whisper on a low-power SBC. If you're curious about practical voice interaction for resource-constrained robots — not just what's newest, but what actually performs — this one's for you.
(Jim)