How hard is it to make an offline model like this learn?
The readme mentions a memory that lasts as long as each conversation which seems like such a hard limitation to live with.
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me too, but I bricked mine when flashing the bios. just a fluke, nothing to be done about it.
I watched the demo, to be honest if I saw it sooner I probably would have tried to start this as a fork from there. Any idea what the issue was?
No, but the core concept had changed so much, between the firmware version when I bought it, and what it is now, that I'm not surprised if the upgrade is a buggy process.
It's a shame, because I only wanted a tenth of what it could do- I just wanted it to send text to a REST server. That's all! And I had it working! But I saw there was a major firmware update, and to make a long story short, KABOOM.
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#54I really like having a voice assistant that focuses on privacy first. I will definitely try it. always add a video to show how it works. Thank you
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#56I wanted to create a voice assistant that is completely offline and doesn't require any internet connection. This is because I wanted to ensure that the user's privacy is protected and that the user's data is not being sent to any third party servers. Props, and thank you for this.
+1. That's the #1 feature I want in any "assistant".
A question: does it run only on the Pi5 or other (also non Raspberry Pi) boards?
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#57All I need is a voice assistant that: - RPi 4 can handle, - I can integrate with HomeAssistant, - is offline only, and doesn't send my data anywhere. This project seems to be ticking most, if not all of the boxes, compared to anything else I've seen. Good job! While at it, can someone drop a recommendation for a Rpi-compatible mic for Alexa-like usecase?
Check out Rhasspy. You won't get anything practically useful running LLMs on the 4B but you also don't strictly need LLM-based models. In the Rhasspy community, a common pattern is to do (cheap and lightweight) wake-word detection locally on mic-attached satellites (here 4B should be sufficient) and then stream the actual recording (more computational resources for better results) over the local network to a central…
I've been a happy Rhasspy user and now even more excited for the future because I'm hoping the conversational style (similar to what OpenAI demo'd yesterday) will eventually come to the offline world as well. It is okay if I gotta buy a GPU to make that happen, or maybe we get luckier and it wont? Ok, maybe I'm getting too optimistic now
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#58> It uses distributed models so latency is something I'm working on,
I think it uses local models, right?
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#59I wanted to create a voice assistant that is completely offline and doesn't require any internet connection. This is because I wanted to ensure that the user's privacy is protected and that the user's data is not being sent to any third party servers. Props, and thank you for this.
Extra kudos for the name - and extra extra for using the good old "Picard facepalm" meme.
But seriously - the name got my attention, then I read the introduction and thought "hey, Alexa without uploading everything you say to Amazon? This might actually be something for me!".
> The default wake word is "hey assistant" - I would suggest "Computer" :) And of course it should have a voice that sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majel_Barrett