Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Translator with Speech Recognition and Playback #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi

Dave Conroy shared this project way back on his blog!

I get many requests from people who are still looking for cheap, easy, and fun project ideas for their Raspberry Pi’s, so I wanted to share this translator project I’ve been working on. With very little effort, we can turn this 35$ mini-computer into a feature rich language translator that not only supports voice recognition and native speaker playback, but also is capable of dynamically translating between 1000’s of language pairs, FREE! Even if you are not interested in building this exact translational tool, there are still many parts of this tutorial that might be interesting to you (speech recognition, text to speech, Microsoft/Google translation APIs). Just like the rest of my posts, this one starts with our shopping list. Most of my readers will probably already have most of these items around the house:

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