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Speech Recognition on Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 Sense

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This wiki will demonstrate how you can use TensorFlow Lite on Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 Sense and perform speech recognition using the on-board microphone.

When it comes to embedded AI applications, we highly recommend using the "Seeed nrf52 mbed-enabled Boards Library".

Software setup​

Make sure to first follow "Getting Started with Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 (Sense)" wiki for the initial hardware and software setup.

Now let's move on to the rest of the software setup.

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  • Step 2. Open Arduino IDE, navigate to Sketch > Include Library > Add .ZIP Library... and open the downloaded zip file

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Train data and generate TensorFlow Lite model​

Now we will use a Google Colab notebook to perform the data training and generate a TensorFlow Lite model.

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By default, it will load this dataset which can recognize the words: "yes", "no", "up", "down", "left", "right", "on", "off", "stop", "go", "zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine", "bed", "bird", "cat", "dog", "happy", "house", "marvin", "sheila", "tree", "wow"

  • Step 2. Under Configure Defaults column, change the WANTED_WORDS parameter according to the words that you want the model to recognize. You can choose from: "yes", "no", "up", "down", "left", "right", "on", "off", "stop", "go", "zero", "one", "two", "three", "four", "five", "six", "seven", "eight", "nine", "bed", "bird", "cat", "dog", "happy", "house", "marvin", "sheila", "tree", "wow"

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Note: In this example, the words yes,no,up,down are chosen

  • Step 3. Navigate to Runtime > Run all to run all the code cells

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  • Step 4. Click Run anyway for the error message that pops up

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Note: This process will take about 2 hours to complete

  • Step 5. Once all the code cells are executed, navigate to the files tab on the left corner and you will find a new model.cc file generated under the models folder

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Note: If you cannot see the above model.cc file, refresh the page.

  • Step 6. Right click on the file and click Download to download the file to your PC

Inference​

Now we will use the downloaded TensorFlow Lite model file (model.cc) to recognize different words using the microphone on the Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 Sense.

  • Step 1. Navigate to the library path of tflite-micro-arduino-examples Library (normally under Documents > Arduino > libraries > tflite-micro-arduino-examples), visit examples > micro_speech and open micro_features_model.cpp

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  • Step 2. Replace the values under const unsigned char g_model[] DATA_ALIGN_ATTRIBUTE = { with the new values from the model.cc file

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  • Step 3. Change g_model_len according to the value from model.cc. Here we got 26720
const int g_model_len = 26720;
  • Step 4. Open micro_features_micro_model_settings.cpp inside micro_speech folder and add all the words that we defined in the training process. Here we used yes,no,up,down
#include "micro_features_micro_model_settings.h"

const char* kCategoryLabels[kCategoryCount] = {
    "silence",
    "unknown",
    "yes",
    "no",
    "up",
    "down",
};
  • Step 5. Open micro_features_micro_model_settings.h inside micro_speech folder and change constexpr int kCategoryCount according to the number of categories defined. Here we have 6 categories
constexpr int kCategoryCount = 6;

  • Step 6. Open micro_speech.ino inside micro_speech folder and upload the codes to the Seeed Studio XIAO nRF52840 Sense

  • Step 7. Open serial monitor window and say out loud the words that we defined before. You will see the serial monitor output the correct words spoken after recognition.

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