We've just called upon an old friend of STEV3 to help us hack the Google Assistant.
This is James. He was the lead dog when we entered Pi Wars two years ago. He's very clever, so much so that he's on the shortlist for Northern Ireland Apprentice of the Year. I'm not sure what that is, but it's national, and it's "of the year" so it sounds like big time.
We've been trying to get our Google Assistant to reliably talk to the robot. It's okay, but it could be faster...
Google is treating our commands like it's waiting for a sentence as part of a conversation. We say a word, and then it waits a few seconds before processing what we said, and then it waits a few more seconds before firing a command over Wi-Fi to the robot. We say "go" and 4-5 seconds later, the robot goes. Not exactly ready for fast-paced action.
We know Google can process words way faster than what we've got. One of the examples that come with AIY spews out everything you say while you're saying it:
You said: "we"
You said: "we know"
You said: "we know Google"
You said: "we know Google can"
You said: "we know Google can process"
etc.
Hopefully The Hatchet can hack apart this beast.
BTW here's proof that James is once-a-stev3-always-a-stev3:
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