#naada

Thank you for this, Bendrepedia! It’s an honour to be a part of any celebration of Da. Ra. Bendre. To recite his sublime poetry full of the joy of ‘naada’ – that unparalleled gift of rhythm he was blessed with – is to witness something wonderful happen to oneself. Bendre ajja was and is, quite simply, a force of nature. Look forward to collaborating with you guys again, Bendrepedia.

Imagine there’s no heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us, only sky Imagine all the people living for today Ah Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people living life in peace You

You may say I’m a dreamer But I’m not the only one I hope some day you’ll join us And the world will be as one

Imagine no…

අවාරේ මීමොර මල් පිපිලා රැවටෙන්න එපා උඹේ පැල් කොටේට එනවා උඹේ පැල් කොටේට එනවා

මට වහන් වෙලා උඹ දීග ගියත් මා නියගල අල කා මියැදුනේ නෑ මට වහන් වෙලා උඹ දීග ගියත් මා නියගල අල කා මියැදුනේ නෑ

උඹේ රුවට මගේ පපුකැනැත්ත බැන වැදිලා මලක් පිපිලා බැදිල මලක් පිපිලා

I don’t know just how it happened, I let down my guard Swore I’d never fall in love again but I fell hard Guess I should have seen it coming; caught me…

දියවන්න කුමාරියේ | Diyawanna Kumariye by Naada [2019]

දියවන්න කුමාරියේ නුඹ නිදනා නිසොල්මනේ දෙරණට සඳ පලුව එබෙනවා හීන ගේන සීනි බෝල තක්ෂිලාව වට කරලා මගේ පුතා අකුරු කරනවා සුවට නිදන්නේ සිතුවිලි යහනේ වාමනයින් පවන් සලනවා නුඹව රකිනවා

හුස්ම බෙදන රූස්ස ගස් යාය පිටින් කාසි වෙලා ඉඩෝරයට හේතු හොයනවා දළ දිලිසෙන හස්ති රජුන් හෙමින් හෙමින් නිදි කරලා ස්වර්ගයට යන්න හදනවා සුවට නිදන්නේ සිතුවිලි යහනේ වාමනයින් පවන් සලනවා නුඹව රකිනවා

පත්තිනියේ නුඹ නාඩන් ඇය එතෙරක කාසි සොයයි ඒ…

[ Pronounce it as: nAda  (sanskrit: नाद; നാദ, ನಾದ) ]

Well, in the progress of learning IoT, I implemented voice commands, though very basic it was very exciting. 

Naada calendar on

Naada calendar off

Naada weather on

Naada weather off

Wow! it was awesome to see NAADA working. It took some amount of effort, (apart from the programming and putting altogether) get them to recognize voice/words with the background noise by my kids, etc. But I did it.

Those were the modules switching on and off, which was fine. 

The next step was switching off the monitor. Like when I say Naada monitor OFF - my monitor is off. and when I say Naada monitor ON and there comes my monitor ON and I experimented with my TV. It works. I thought, now I can replace my remote with these voice commands. Whenever my remote goes missing, here is a quick solution ;-)!

Tech spec:

Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 B Softwares/Packages/framework: pocket-sphinx, lmtool, MagicMirror

About the name:

I started off by using the nickname of my daughter, it was an interesting phase. Each time, I gave a voice command, my little one used to respond (we used to laugh and laugh) and there goes the voice command. I enjoyed the innocent reaction of my 2-year-old and at the same time, I struggled to get them in place.

After a bit of thinking and brainstorm, we decided to call it NAADA. Meaning: NAADA in sanskrit means sound.