Nowadays, speech and voice technology is applied to various IoT platforms. We can see Amazon and Google already having built smart speaker machines, Amazon Echo and Google Home. In this chapter, we will explore and learn how to build a smart speaker machine. For development and testing, we will use the ReSpeaker board to implement a smart speaker machine.

In this chapter, we'll learn the following topics:

• Introducing smart speaker machines
• Exploring existing smart speaker machines
• Introducing ReSpeaker
• Integrating your IoT boards with ReSpeaker
• GPIO programming on ReSpeaker
• Connecting to the Microsoft Bing Speech API
• Building your own smart speaker machine

Let's explore!