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Simple Speech Recognition in Python

Avnish Yadav

8 Oct, 2017

Speech Recognition is an important feature in several applications used such as home automation, artificial intelligence, etc. This project aims to provide an introduction on how to make use of the SpeechRecognition library of Python. This is useful as it can be used on microcontrollers such as Raspberry Pis with the help of an external microphone.

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