Bringing speech recognition to the low-power microcontroller you’d find in an Arduino sounds like the work of a mad scientist or Ph.D. candidate, but that’s exactly what [Arjo Chakravarty] did.

The lowly Arduino, an 8-bit AVR microcontroller with a pitiful amount of RAM, terribly small Flash storage space, and effectively no peripherals to speak of, has better speech recognition ...

Hardware designer and serial Kickstarter entrepreneur Patrick Thomas Mitchell has taken to Kickstarter to launch his new Arduino E-Z COMMS Shield ...

Raspberry Pi and Arduino enthusiasts building projects requiring text-to-speech may be interested in a new development board created by InvIoT aptly named TextToSpeech.

IBM was unable to provide a comment on this issue at the time of writing. Another hope for Linux users who need speech-recognition software is Sphinx, an open-source speech recognition project.