Mycroft – open source voice assistant
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Mycroft – open source voice assistant
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#2Huh, didn't expect to see a Mycroft Holmes reference today. Picroft looks interesting.
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#3$350 for a 4.5" CRT looking thing?
OR
$90 for echo show 8" which does many more things. *Including government surveillance.
I wonder how many people have preordered.
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#4I use Mycroft for around 2-3 years on a raspberry pi with an microphone array and the quality is still not nowhere near the level were I would give it to my mom or granny.
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#5$350 for a 4.5" CRT looking thing? OR $90 for echo show 8" which does many more things. *Including government surveillance. I wonder how many people have preordered.
Under the specs, all I saw for display was:
>4.3″ IPS wide-viewing angle, full color, touchsceen
Were you able to find more information somewhere else about it being crt?
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#6$350 for a 4.5" CRT looking thing? OR $90 for echo show 8" which does many more things. *Including government surveillance. I wonder how many people have preordered.
This isn't a CRT.
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#8I use Mycroft for around 2-3 years on a raspberry pi with an microphone array and the quality is still not nowhere near the level were I would give it to my mom or granny.
Depends on what it's used for imo. I've got the same setup and--apart from some sexism in the voice recognition--the basics work flawlessly. Once it's up and running it's trivial to set timers, check the weather, do basic unit conversions, etc...
Maybe once a month it freezes and it just needs to be restarted, anyone can do that who can get used to talking to a robot in the first place.
The more complicated stuff, I agree is not fit for people who aren't comfortable with a terminal. I also use it to control my lights and play spotify, but I'm only able to do that because I'm comfortable messing around with it and have the skills (and desire) to debug it when it breaks every other week.
It's nowhere near as polished as Alexa or similar, but it's good for the basics or for hobbyists who don't want to be spied on.
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#9$350 for a 4.5" CRT looking thing? OR $90 for echo show 8" which does many more things. *Including government surveillance. I wonder how many people have preordered.
There was another post[0] on here today about Amazon losing $10B on Alexa this year. The only other big player is Google who I assume must also run the division at a big loss - at least on the hardware side of things as I've got loads of their devices dotted around the house most were given to me free or at a stupidly low cost (£20 each). Even the ones like this with a full colour screen I've only paid £49 for.
It's an interesting market that I don't think either has figured out too well. Anecdotally, I've not really seen them used for shopping or even really shopping lists and the search model doesn't seem quite as lucrative as if someone used their phone or computer to search.
The one thing they do seem to do well in is as an introduction to - and hub for - the smarthome but I struggle to see how that will make these big subsides viable.
Which brings us back to this. A bit ahead of it's time perhaps but if Amazon/Google pull back their subsidies then this kind of thing might be where we have to go. I'd be happier not using Google Home and have mostly moved to zigbee switches with home assistant to control now anyway. Maybe voice control was a bit of a flash in the pan?
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#10I use Mycroft for around 2-3 years on a raspberry pi with an microphone array and the quality is still not nowhere near the level were I would give it to my mom or granny.
Depends on what it's used for imo. I've got the same setup and--apart from some sexism in the voice recognition--the basics work flawlessly. Once it's up and running it's trivial to set timers, check the weather, do basic unit conversions, etc... Maybe once a month it freezes and it just needs to be restarted, anyone can do that who can get used to talking to a robot in the first place. The more complicated stuff, I…
> sexism in the voice recognition
What does this mean? Mycroft prefers taking orders from dudes?