AI Thinker Audio Kit: Building a Simple Synthesizer with the AudioTools Library

As you might know from my last posts I am currently extending my Arduino Audio Tools library to support the AI Thinker Audio Kit which is based on the ES8388 audio chip. In my Arduino Audio Tools we have all ingredients to turn our ESP32 AudioKit into a simple synthesizer with just a few lines of code: Naturally you can use this functionality on any other Processor. You just need to replace the output object Read more

By pschatzmann, ago

Investigating the AI Thinker AudioKit Audio Input Bug…

In my last blog, I have described how to process audio input data and encountered the bug that the microphone and line input are mixed together and that there is an open issue for this which has been open for quite some time now. So I decided to do a little bit of research for my ESP32 AudioKit V2.2 3478 : First Assumption: The Registers are not set up correctly The ES8388 Data Sheet describes Read more

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AudioKit: Processing Audio Input

As you might know from my last posts I am currently extending my Arduino Audio Tools library to support the AI Thinker Audio Kit which is based on the ES8388 audio chip. The AI Thinker ESP32 AudioKit was raising my interest because it also provides audio input in the form of built in microphones and an line-in jack. So far I demonstrated how to output sound to the AudioKit and it is about time to Read more

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My ‘Arduino AudioKit HAL’ Library has ben released….

Arduino AudioKit HAL As you might know from my last posts I am currently extending my Arduino Audio Tools library to support the AI Thinker Audio Kit which is based on the ES8388 audio chip. . There are different ESP32 AudioKit boards available that can be programmed with the Espressif ADF Framework. The ADF Framework contains an abstraction layer to support different CODEC chips. Unfortunately ADF can not be used in Arduino, but it would Read more

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Using the AI Thinker Audio Kit Buttons

As you might know from my last posts I am currently extending my Arduino Audio Tools library to support the AI Thinker Audio Kit which is based on the ES8388 audio chip. . Originally I was of the opinion that the program logic for reading of the GPIO pins and the processing of the related actions should belong into a specific Arduino sketch and should not be part of an Audio Framework. The Audio Kit Read more

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Using the FLITE TTS Engine with the AI Thinker Audio Kit

As you might know from my last posts I am currently extending my Arduino Audio Tools library to support the AI Thinker Audio Kit which is based on the ES8388 audio chip. . I thought it might be helpful to have a ‘Text to Speech’ example for the Audio Kit. In this example I am using FLITE. The Arduino Sketch #include “flite_arduino.h” #include “AudioTools.h” #include “AudioDevices/ESP32AudioKit/AudioKit.h” using namespace audio_tools; AudioKitStream kit; Flite flite(kit); const char* Read more

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Turning the ‘AI Thinker Audio Kit’ into an Arduino Bluetooth Speaker

As you might know from my last posts I am currently extending my Arduino Audio Tools library to support the AI Thinker Audio Kit which is based on the ES8388 audio chip. . We can turn the AI Thinker ESP32 Audio Kit V2.2 easily into a Bluetooth Speaker with the following three libraries: ESP32-A2DP for the Bluetooth logic Arduino Audio Tools Library to provide the output AudioKit In the ESP32-A2DP library we can indicate a Read more

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The ‘AI Thinker Audio Kit’ Arduino Challenge

I found some cheap AI Thinker ESP32 Audio Kit V2.2 on AliExpress and because I was tired of all the wires I had to connect to implement my different scenarios that are possible with my Arduino Audio Tools Library, I thought it to be a good idea to buy this board. I am aware that this board, like the corresponding LyraT alternatives from Espressif are mainly used with the IDF/ADF framework, but I wanted to Read more

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Arduino Music Streaming mit live555 ?

Introduction I wanted to make some music streaming functionality available on Arduino. There are plenty of private music services using custom protocols which are out of reach. Fortunately there are also the open source protocols RTP and RTSP: RTP is the transport protocol for real-time data. It provides timestamp, sequence number, and other means to handle the timing issues in real-time data transport. RTSP is a control protocol that initiates and directs delivery of streaming Read more

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Using an ‘I2S HIRES ADC Audio I2S Capture Card Module’ with an ESP32

Quite some time ago I have purchased an Audio Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) module, but I never managed to have it working properly. Unfortunately Google Search could not help either and I was the only one using this module or having problems. The Software Finally I have it working now and therefore document my setup in the hope that this might save you some time. Since I am doing all my audio projects with Read more

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