Activity 02.04: I Can Hear You!

Goal: Press the A button to have your micro:bit listen(), then press button B to have it say() what you said.

Success Criteria:

• The micro:bit runs the program with no errors
• You press the A button, and the micro:bit listens to you
• You press the B button, and the program repeats what you said

Instruction:

• listen(5) will make the program listen to you for 5 seconds
• You can change the number inside the brackets to whatever you like, but 5 seconds is a good amount of time
• Remember to include from speech import * at the start of your code that uses listen() or say()

Task:

• Find a quiet place to test the listen function
• Look at the ‘Instruction’ section
• Use the documentation
• Fill in the blanks below

Extension:

• Make the program loop so that you do not need to rerun it to have it say something else
• Try to get the program to listen to another computer saying something
• Write say("hello", 8), what do you notice? What happens when you change the number? How high can you make the number?