It is so disrespectful of me to have avoided giving Dave the ability to hear what is going on around him for so long. Dave is over 8 years old and the ROS enabled Dave will be 5 years old this month, and until now I have not given him “Carl’s super power” (speech recognition).
It turns out due to my experience with Carl, that it was relatively easy to install the VOSK speech recognition engine, and get Dave listening for a few salutations. What is a bit harder is to decide what Dave’s responses should be, and to avoid repeating himself with an overly simple algorithm.
20 second video demonstrating Lyrical-Dave’s new “Hello Dave” function:
(Hearing “Good Night Dave” he responds “Good Night. I’m going to sleep now” and exits the Hello Dave program for the time being.)