Are you looking to build your own voice assistant to leverage the latest AI chatbots in your smart home? There are plenty of build guides out there that will help you set up the basic functionality needed for voice interactions with your favorite single-board computer or microcontroller. That part is a solved problem, but getting it to reliably recognize your voice from across the room is tougher. And if you want a device that looks nice in your home — rather than a breadboard and a mess of wires — you’ll need some design skills too.
Or, you could just buy M5Stack’s new Echo Pyramid smart speaker base. It was designed to handle high-quality audio capture and playback, and it has some capacitive touch sliders as well for more advanced user interfaces. It also has…