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hello I'm Gary Simms from Andhra thority now it's been such lovely weather here I thought I'd come out from the studio and do my Knicks video here about the Google Voice get out in my garden now if you remember I did a video a little while back about how you take a Raspberry Pi and use the software from Google which they have for their voice get a modify it to use a normal speaker and a normal USB microphone and how you could therefore get a kind of a your own homemade digital assistant now once I made that video Google very kindly contacted me and they sent me a proper Google Voice kit now these were really hard to get hold of - thank you very much Google if you have a look inside the box here here you have all the bits the speaker the big button on the top okay and all the other bits and I'm going to give you this we assemble this together and we're going to see what else if you I know all about the Google Voice kit please let me explain so there are several stages to getting the boys keep working first we need to actually assemble the hardware then you need to install the software then you need to configure Google's cloud services and then finally you need to test it now assembling the hardware is fairly straightforward Google give a whole bunch of instructions over at the Google Voice website if you get stuck at all just look at the photographs and just check to see that you're doing the right thing I wouldn't consider myself a hardware expert but I managed to get this together fairly simply now the software for the Google Voice kit is provided by Google itself now all of the links and all the actual details are step by step because you're going to find in the article that accompanies this video that's over on the under authority comm website I really recommend you following the steps there but in broad strokes what you need to do is you need to download that image and write it on to an SD card and then boot your Raspberry Pi with of course a mouse keyboard and monitor connected to it and once your Roger PI boots up you will see the fairly standard Raspberry Pi desktop but you'll notice that the wallpaper has been replaced by Google and while you're now on your Raspberry Pi you're going to need to configure access to secure shell you do that by going to the menu and then finding the Radford PI configuration program so two interfaces and then make sure that SSH is enabled and you also need to make sure that your network is configured go up to the Wi-Fi sign up on the top right hand corner by the clock and configure it your Wi-Fi network now the reason we have your Raspberry Pi kicks to the Internet is because a lot of these heavy lifting is done using Google's cloud services so to get this Google assistant working on the Raspberry Pi you're going to need to connect to and configure a cloud services account over at Google now all the details on how you do this are found in this article and also Google have published them on the voice kit website and again there are links over at the article for that basically what you need to is go over there you log in you create a new project you enable the Google assistant API for that project you need to create some credentials for logging in so that it knows that your raspberry pi is authorized to log into your account and you do that by creating some oo-oo credentials and you then download the JSON file which has those credentials in and you put them on your raspberry pi renaming the file to assistant Jason and once you've done that it should work with the Google's Google's cloud services and now that you put it all together hardware software cloud services the only thing left to do is to test it how many kilometers in a mile or mile equals one point six zero nine kilometers who is the CEO of Google the CEO at Google is sundar Pichai please sing me a song I'm singing you a song because Tom some wit and salt make you happy this is a song for you how many ounces in a kilogram one kilogram equals thirty five point two seven four ounces and so there we have it the Google Voice kit it's a great device if you to just play around with Google's voice recognition services build your own things just using a Raspberry Pi which is really easy to get hold of if you want to do prototyping maybe you're actually building a proper product then all this is just a great way of getting into digital assistants and into voice recognizing so really a thumbs up to Google for making this accessible to everybody from amateur to professional and go Sims from Andrew authority and I hope you enjoyed this video please do give it a thumbs up also don't forget to subscribe to and royalties YouTube channel hit a notification bell and also go with to Android 40 calm because we are your source for all things Android