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This week’s Data Exposed show welcomes back Maxim Lukiyanov to kick off a 4-part series on Spark performance tuning with Spark 2.x. Maxim is a Senior PM on the big data HDInsight team and is in the studio today to present Part 1 of his 4-part series.[0… Continue reading Spark Performance Tuning – Part 1 | Data Exposed
Your wait for the world’s deadliest game about an even deadlier game show is officially over! The Culling is available now for Xbox One. With a potent mix of danger and adrenaline, the burgeoning Battle Royale genre has taken the world by storm and we are absolutely thrilled to bring such a thrilling game first to console, exclusively on Xbox One. In The Culling, it’s kill, or be killed. No excuses, no second chances, no consolation prize. In order to earn the right to be called a winner you’ll need to out-think, out-play, and out-survive your opponents in a battle… Continue reading The Culling Available Now Exclusively on Xbox One
Despite the short week after Memorial Day, there was no shortage of inspiring news around Microsoft. We checked out new Windows 10 devices unveiled at Computex 2017 and learned about Microsoft facial recognition technology that’s helping to find missing children in China. We talked with two entrepreneurs who are reinventing wallpaper and learned how a nonprofit organization is using Microsoft’s Power BI service to bring aid to people in developing countries. … Read more »
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Today’s Hardware Friday project is from Microsoft Azure MVP Herve Roggero and it’s a great example of how a much of different technologies and services can be meshed to create something kind of cool…
Writing a Voice Activated SharePoint Todo List – IoT App on RPi
Ever wanted to write a voice activated system on an IoT device to keep track of your “todo list”, hear your commands being played back, and have the system send you a text message with your todo list when it’s time to walk out the door? Well, I did. In this blog post, I will provide a high level overview of the technologies I used, why I used them, a few things I learned along the way, and partial code to assist with your learning curve if you decide to jump on this. I also had the pleasure of demonstrating this prototype at Microsoft’s Community Connections in Atlanta in front of my colleagues.
How It Works
I wanted to build a system using 2 Raspberry Pis (one running Windows 10 IoT Core, and another running Raspbian) that achieved the following objectives:
- Have 2 RPis that communicate through the Azure Service Bus
This was an objective of mine, not necessarily a requirement; the intent was to have two RPis running different Operating Systems communicate asynchronously without sharing the same network- Learn about the Microsoft Speech Recognition SDK
I didn’t want to send data to the cloud for speech recognition; so I needed an SDK on the RPi to perform this function; I chose the Microsoft Speech Recognition SDK for this purpose- Communicate to multiple cloud services without any SDK so that I could program the same way on Windows and Raspbian (Twilio, Azure Bus, Azure Table, SharePoint Online)
- I also wanted to minimize the learning curve of finding which SDK could run on a Windows 10 IoT Core, and Raspbian (Linux); so I used Enzo Unified to abstract the APIs and instead send simple HTTPS commands allowing me to have an SDK-less development environment (except for the Speech Recognition SDK). Seriously… go find an SDK for SharePoint Online for Raspbian and UWP (Windows 10 IoT Core).
The overall solution looks like this:
Technologies
In order to achieve the above objectives, I used the following bill of materials:
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Things to Know
Creating a prototype involving the above technologies will inevitably lead you to collect a few nuggets along the way. Here are a few. …
How It Looks Like
A picture is worth a thousand words… so here is the complete setup:
C# Code
Since this is an ongoing prototype I will not share the complete code at this time; however I will share a few key components/techniques I used to make this work.
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Conclusion
This prototype demonstrated that while there were a few technical challenges along the way, it was relatively simple to build a speech recognition engine that can understand commands using Windows 10 IoT Core, .NET, and the Microsoft Speech Recognition SDK.
Further more, the intent of this project was also to demonstrate that Enzo Unified made it possible to code against multiple services without the need for an SDK on the client side regardless of the platform and the development language. Abstracting SDKs through simple HTTP calls makes it possible to access Twilio, SharePoint Online, Azure services and much more without any additional libraries on the client system.
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In this episode of Azure Friday, Olivier Martin joins Scott Hanselman for the second of a two-part series on hybrid networking in Azure, which is key to connecting existing customer infrastructure into an Azure Virtual Network (vNet). In this episode, … Continue reading Azure Hybrid Networking 201 | Azure Friday
Behaviour Interactive is a company that has been successfully making games for 25 years, a company filled with passionate gamers and enthusiastic developers. A lot of us have been eager to tell our own stories, make our own games and over the years we developed a few of our own intellectual properties (some of you may have played Scaler and Wet). So, I’d like to give you a glimpse into what lead us to make Dead by Daylight. Through all of our games, we kept coming back to the idea of playing as the bad guy. Maybe a slasher movie? Maybe… Continue reading Dead by Daylight Coming Soon to Xbox One
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