Build a spatial TV navigation library and your own personal voice assistant!

Agenda

18:00 - 18:10
Welcome and introductions

18:10 - 18:40
Let's Build a Spatial Navigation Library!
Sergio Avalos will take you through his journey as he joined the team supporting our Smart TVs application and share his experience learning one of the most overlooked but essential pieces of functionality we have.

He'll start by explaining why it is needed in the first place and how it was initially developed with its constraints, and he'll conclude by building a piece-by-piece demo of a simple app.

If you are curious about TV development and feel familiar with React, this talk is for you.

18:40 - 19:40
Build Your Own Voice Assistant
When you say, “Hey Siri, play Spotify” or “Alexa, turn on my kitchen lights,” have you ever wondered how they work?

Dale Humby will show you how to build your own local, offline voice assistant using open-source software -- all runnable on a Raspberry Pi.

In the process, you’ll learn about wake words, speech-to-text and text-to-speech, intent matching and handling, and we’ll write a few simple commands to get the weather and start playing music on Spotify.

No prior knowledge of Docker, Pi’s, or voice assistants is needed, just a curiosity about how they work.

19:40 - 20:00
Wrap-up, questions, and mingling!