Our June 2025 *IN PERSON* RSSC Meetup @ CSULB!

[Alan Timm]

Our Monthly Meetup @ CSULB!

Please join us this Saturday June 14th at 10:00am for our next *in person* Meetup!

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Plug 1331 Palo Verde Ave, Long Beach, CA into your GPS and google will take you right to the front door.  :-)

We'll also post a sign at our old-new meeting place for anyone who wanders over there.

Here's what's on the agenda...

9:30 am:  The Doors open.  Stop by early and say hi!  Or log in early to make sure your mic works.  We'll be here.

9:45 am:  Business meeting

10:00 am:​   (Intermediate) Alfie can hear you now!  Thanks to recent developments in speech recognition, we can host both speech detection and speech recognition on a radxa rock 5c! We'll walk through how to use silero speech detection along with nvidia's new parakeet v2 asr system to understand speech at 7x realtime. (Alan) #alfieslistening #canuhearmenow #nowakewordswedoinitlive

11:00 am:​  (Intermediate) Ok...  now that we have a command.  what do we do with it? Thanks to a tip (Thanks Seth!) Jim explores using embeddings to deliver flexible command parsing in less than a second! (Jim) #didihearyoucorrectly #whatwasthatexactwordingagain #heybotdontbesopicky

12:00 pm:  30 minute grab-n-go Lunch Break

12:30 pm:  Announcements / Show-n-Tell / Open Session.  It's a great opportunity to ask questions and get advice.  Our members will bring in their projects and share what we've been up to.  Are you working on something?  Bring it in!

For anyone unable to attend in person, here's the Zoom info for this Saturday's meeting.

Join Zoom Meeting

https://csulb.zoom.us/j/81077282696
Meeting ID: 810 7728 2696

[Alan Timm]

Alright! 

We're all set up and ready to rock.

See you here!

[Alan Timm]

Good morning!

The recording of our latest meetup has been posted here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiJP8o2loX8

Links to individual topics:

00:00:00 Club Meeting Introductions

00:00:08 (Intermediate) Alfie can hear you now! Thanks to recent developments in speech recognition, we can host both speech detection and speech recognition on a radxa rock 5c! We'll walk through how to use silero speech detection along with nvidia's new parakeet v2 asr system to understand speech at 7x realtime. (Alan) #alfieslistening #canuhearmenow #nowakewordswedoinitlive

00:59:02 (Intermediate) Ok... now that we have a command. what do we do with it? Thanks to a tip (Thanks Seth!) Jim explores using embeddings to deliver flexible command parsing in less than a second! (Jim) #didihearyoucorrectly #whatwasthatexactwordingagain #heybotdontbesopicky

01:57:13 Show'n'Tell: (Ethan) Discusses the OC Maker Faire 2025!

02:05:12 Show'n'Tell: (Jim) Shows how to use picovoice.ai's Porcupine wake word system

02:17:05 Show'n'Tell: (Ross) An update on his ROS-ified RC Car conversion with a Jetson Nano

02:26:31 Show'n'Tell: (Alan) Uses OpenAI O3 to interactively solve a problem on his SBC

02:37:36 Show'n'Tell: (Alan) Introduces the "Chinese Library" analogy that describes how AI is trained

02:55:25 Show'n'Tell: (Nick) Shows his progress on his InMoov Hand and arduino based lidar car

02:57:15 Show'n'Tell: (Pat) Shows his progress on his mobile heads-up-display

Chat Transcript:

00:21:45 Ben Partida RSSC President: Good morning!
If anyone has a show-N-Tell, let me know so I can add you to the list.

00:39:01 Alan Timm: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2

00:39:15 Alan Timm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uGzu43MfqM

00:47:14 Jim DiNunzio: I'll have a show and tell with new wake word detector with multiple words for different needs

00:50:43 Ben Partida RSSC President: I will add you to the list, Jim.

00:52:07 Alan Timm: https://github.com/alansrobotlab2/alfiebot_ws

00:52:15 Alan Timm: https://radxa.com/products/rock5/5c/

01:13:19 Alan Timm: I have one or two items for show'n'tell as well.

01:13:53 Ben Partida RSSC President: Great, 'll add you to the list, Alan.

See you next month!