Boondock Echo is a time-shift audio project created for emergency radio communications. A Boondock Echo module connects to transceivers with audio cables between the mic and speaker of the radio and the speaker and mic of the Bookdock Echo moule.
The Boondock Echo listens to the radio for traffic. Whenever new traffic is received, it captures the audio as a .wav on a local sd card, and then sends the file to sever for storage, and queing, and playback. Users can play back messages on the Boondock browser interface or que messages for transmission on a radio.
Having the audio files on the cloud, enables us to have some really cool features to a radio, that were not possible earlier. like, converting audio to text, using text to speech, audio noice reduction, and pre-porcessing audio.
All the source code you would need is included in this repositories. You will also need to create google cloud account for Text to Speech & Speech to Text features. The build instructions are split into four steps. Each part has a linked instructional video.
- Assembling the hardware
- Setting up the Web Server
- Programming the Boondock
- Getting Started