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There are plenty of radiators and fans for the small single-board computer – but how big is the impact of using cooling? Don’t get me wrong – having a cooling system is always better than … Read more
In the last part of this series we linked Rhasspy and Node-RED to teach the assistant its first function: reading the current date and time. In this part we will focus on measuring temperature via … Read more
If you forget the root password (or a user password) of your WSL installation (Windows Subsystem for Linux), using the registry might help you. Because WSL is rather a lightweight kernel expansion than a full-featured … Read more
In the last part of this series we checked-out and installed software for building our own voice assistant without leverage cloud resources. In this article we will focus on linking both Rhasspy and Node-RED. At … Read more
Recently, I had to migrate a bigger amount of git repositories from one software to another provider. One requirement was to copy the whole project including commit history and tags. Fortunately, it was easy to … Read more
Voice assistants are omnipresent gadgets loved by technophile geeks. They support ad-hoc tasks (set tee timer, announce outdoor temperature) and integrate flawlessly into home automation and other third-party systems. Unfortunately, data privacy is often subordinated with these … Read more
Docker has been supporting multiple processor architecture for a long time – including x86_64 and ARMv6/7 being the most well-known ones. In addition to them, aarch64/arm64 (ARMv8+), s390x (IBM z Systems) and ppc64le (IBM POWER) are also possible. … Read more
To translate text into voice, a TTS software (Text-to-Speech) is required. Under Linux there are basically two free tools: CMU Flite and eSpeak. CMU Flite (festival-lite) exists since 2001 and is therefore considered a veteran in speech synthesis under Linux, eSpeak … Read more
If you‘re also working in IT, you will know the problem: new software always brings new requirements and at some point even powerful hardware is not adequate anymore. Even for private use-cases it might be … Read more
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 (SLES) not only introduced new software packages – another big update was making those packages more modular. In comparison to predecessor releases, SLES has a generic installation media for the … Read more
