Since everyone is interested in the hardware:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803349510543.html
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256803085687061.html
the particular choice was for the battery and the other for the size, both are generic and come with the same software and bios, several vendors, if I could buy something better I would look for one that can have a lavalier microphone
I wanted to do this exact project - record audio all day and then have AI process it - to identify behavior outburst of my autistic toddler.
It's critical information for early diagnosis and treatment, but it's really hard to capture the data while also dealing with the actual situation. Being able to send the sounds he makes to his therapist could also be usefull when then are trying to get him to mimic sounds and talk.
With that said, is the audio AI open sourced? The part that analyzes the audio stream?
Thanks for the links to the hardware, also a really important part!
It does speech-to-text, then you can use the full force of all the text analysis tools that are out there.