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Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

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Re: Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

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Post by vunie »

Iv wrote: post #15
nunofgs wrote: post #9

I too am super interested in an offline-only voice assistant but really don't want to bother with setting up a mic connected to a pi. Even tough it's not super hard, it'll never be as good as the commercially available options. I think this project would really benefit from taking one of the excellent existing voice assistant/speakers on the market (Google home, echo dots, etc., and flashing them with some custom fir…

> Even tough it's not super hard, it'll never be as good as the commercially available options. Arguably, being offline and keeping your recordings off the cloud, it is already superior to commercially available options.

Exactly. I've never considered voice assistants because I don't want recordings of me or my family being used for who knows what.

I've just looked over the docs. I'll probably be playing with this very soon.

Re: Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

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Post by magicalhippo »

potato_penguin wrote: post #3
brink wrote: post #2

Does anyone know if this is viable on a pi zero?

No, based off of their hardware requirements. See here. https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/hardware/

Apparently it's work in progress: https://github.com/synesthesiam/rhasspy/issues/61

Sounds like it's not too far off.

Re: Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

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Post by woodson »

catalogia wrote: post #21
lallysingh wrote: post #7

How good is the recognition?

It seems it uses pocketsphinx or kaldi. I've never tried kaldi but I've tried pocketsphinx before and didn't find it accurate enough to be useful.

Kaldi is much much better, but when used for low latency recognition on the device, the accuracy will be lower than it could be because one would use much smaller models adapted to the constrained proccessing power of the device.

It would still be much better than pocketsphinx.

Re: Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

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Post by sweetdreamerit »

_underfl0w_ wrote: post #25

Similar project: Voice2JSON Website: https://voice2json.org GitHub: https://github.com/synesthesian/voice2json (I am not affiliated but am using it in my own pet project)

https://github.com/synesthesiam/voice2json (not synesthesiaN)

Re: Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

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Post by Havoc »

jszymborski wrote: post #10

This looks like a lot of fun to hook up to something like this 6 mic hat for the Raspberry Pi https://respeaker.io/6_mic_array/

I have one of those

They’re pretty decent. Solid range. The setup is sorta ok. Requires a bit of googling and tweaking

Re: Rhasspy is an open source, fully offline voice assistant toolkit

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Post by pts_ »

vunie wrote: post #22
Iv wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Even tough it's not super hard, it'll never be as good as the commercially available options. Arguably, being offline and keeping your recordings off the cloud, it is already superior to commercially available options.

Exactly. I've never considered voice assistants because I don't want recordings of me or my family being used for who knows what. I've just looked over the docs. I'll probably be playing with this very soon.

Interestingly the storage on my phone was used up and Google Keyboard kept on crashing, so I had to use voice for one whole night.
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