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Re:Amazon Provides DIY Echo Plans for Raspberry Pi by gt565k on Friday March 25, 2016 @05:38PM (#11362853)
On a related note, check this project out. http://jasperproject.github.io/

You can perhaps trigger alexa to start listening through it by wiring the voice recognition to click the "start listening" button.

Re:Amazon Provides DIY Echo Plans for Raspberry Pi by soared on Saturday March 26, 2016 @01:06PM (#11366402)
Jasper is outdated and incredibly difficult to install on any recent model (2, 3 or 0).
Re:Amazon Provides DIY Echo Plans for Raspberry Pi by llamataboot on Friday March 25, 2016 @05:42PM (#11362887)
yes this is what I came into say. You can hardwire a phrase similar to how jasper does it and use that to trigger the start listening method