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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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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.

Having run into similar problems multiple times, the solution is to clear cache on an app. If, like me, sorting your apps by storage usage never actually completes[1], browsers are a good thing to check first[2]; Unity games are a good second (those analytics pile up, even if the app is firewalled). If you're rooted, check the analytics in Chrome's private data folder, it was taking up 1.5gb on my tablet last time (not sure if this is cleared when you clear cache or not)

If the primary issue is the same as me, that you download too much crap without paying attention to available storage, just use the terminal emulator to create a 25-100mb file you can delete when necessary.

[1] storage ️ internal ️ apps [2] If you use PWAs to cache data and avoid high data bills, keep in mind that clearing browser cache clears PWA cache as well (my most-used PWAs are for hn and xkcd)

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

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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/

the playstation eye has a pretty decent far field mic array and can be had for next to nothing. I used one with a raspberry pi to make a google assistant a few years ago

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

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Have you considered Mozilla's DeepSpeech for Speech2Text? Since version 0.6 it seems to be a viable option for a raspberry pi. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/12/deepspeech-0-6-mozillas-sp...

We have, though my tests prior to 0.6 were not as promising as I'd hoped. With 0.6, though, we're planning to add support for English and French (a German model is apparently in the works: https://github.com/AASHISHAG/deepspeech-german/issues/3).
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