Our man James 'The Hatchett' Matchett came through with new voice code for us. The Google Assistant and Google Cloudspeech APIs which came with the AIY kit weren't exactly doing the job - they were last updated in 2018 or something - so James got us tapped into Azure.
After a few tests, it looks like our robot is way more responsive, and Azure is far better at interpreting our speech. Can't wait to try it out on the battlefield!
Here's James testing out the voice recognition before sending it across.