![]() ![]() Hopefully Amazon will add Python 3.x as a runtime soon. Java 8 could be good, but the JVM startup hardly suits the concept of Lambda really. I chose Python 2.7: Node is too, err, well, I don’t like plain JS very much at all (though ES6 is a lot nicer). In the past I’ve integrated this into Quod Libet, a project I’ve been involved in for some time, so I already had some spare code / knowledge of the Squeezebox TCP/IP API. The Perl, not so much for me, but the server is very reliable and provides far more music metadata correctness than most (think: multiple tags, i18n support, good classical music support - composer, performer etc) plus reliable low-latency syncing. A lot of what attracted people to it (rather than, say, Sonos) is the active community and the Open-Source model. Logitech’s squeezebox, now cruelly abandoned as a product, was/is a much-loved pioneer in the Home Network Audio market. My home audio systems are all run using Squeezebox on Synology… Squeezebox ![]() So it’s ripe for a more natural UI, so how about voice control? Plenty of work is being done in the Smart Home skills area (a big enough topic for another post), but music being my other passion, having this aspect directly controllable was one of the first things I wanted to do. …and then verifying the results back in the real world (as it’s not quite reliable enough still).navigating an array of categories and switches.No matter how many nicer apps and interfaces I install, my internal UX voice weeps a little when witnessing the cognitive load to, say, turn on a light: Having spent too goddamn much a significant amount of my free time over the last few years automating almost everything I can at home, I jumped at the chance for a more futuristic interface. Their API, whilst a little smaller than I’d hoped is growing fast and imagination is often the bottleneck hence perhaps their bribery financial encouragement to developers to publish to the Skill Store. Alexa is currently the hot topic (especially here, after the much-delayed UK launch), Amazon’s Alexa providing rich ground for consumer voice-driven AI in areas previously unthought of.
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