{"id":16835,"date":"2017-05-08T14:42:59","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16835"},"modified":"2017-05-08T14:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-08T13:44:35","slug":"play-youtube-tracks-from-your-google-aiy-raspberry-pi-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16835","title":{"rendered":"Play YouTube tracks from your Google AIY \/ Raspberry Pi box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google_AIY.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16813\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google_AIY.jpg?resize=560%2C373&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google_AIY.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google_AIY.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google_AIY.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google_AIY.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google_AIY.jpg?resize=560%2C373&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google_AIY.jpg?resize=260%2C173&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google_AIY.jpg?resize=160%2C107&amp;ssl=1 160w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Google_AIY.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Those of us who were lucky enough to get hold of the new issue of The MagPi, with the AIY project give-away, have been beavering away over the weekend trying to get our cardboard boxes to understand a word we&#8217;re saying, with differing levels of success. I, myself, had great fun and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16825\">reviewed the project here<\/a>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThePiHut\/status\/861525962088906752\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>The Pi Hut recently tweeted that they were ordering another pallet of the issue and kit!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikered\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mike Redrobe<\/a>\u00a0has written <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/forums\/viewtopic.php?f=114&amp;t=182665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an excellent post on the Raspberry Pi forum<\/a> in which he installs some additional software on the Raspberry Pi and then extends the voice-recognizer Python script that AIY uses. Once the AIY service is restarted, you can command the AIY box to &#8220;play &lt;track name&gt;&#8221; and it will go and find the track on YouTube and play the audio through the speaker. Ingenious! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/forums\/viewtopic.php?f=114&amp;t=182665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Take a look at how to do it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of us who were lucky enough to get hold of the new issue of The MagPi, with the AIY project give-away, have been beavering away over the weekend trying to get our cardboard boxes to understand a word we&#8217;re&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16835\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[368,4,50,31,39,49,51],"tags":[363,362,369],"class_list":["post-16835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aiy","category-audio","category-making","category-music","category-programming","category-software","category-tutorials","tag-aiy","tag-google","tag-mike-redrobe"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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