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All I want is a voice assistant that I can call "computer" like Star Trek, I don't want to have to say a brand name thankyou!
You could’ve always set Alexa to respond to “Computer” instead.
- Full privacy: nothing goes to the "cloud"
- Non-shitty microphones and processing: i want to be able to be heard without having to yell, repeat, or correct
- No wake words: it should listen to everything, process it, and understand when it's being addressed. Since everything is private and local, this is now doable
- Conversational: it should understand when I finished talking, have ability to be interrupted, all with low latency
- Non-stupid: it's 2024, and alexa and siri and google are somehow absolutely abysmal at doing even the basics
- Complete: i don't want to use an app to get stuff configured. I want everything to be controlled via voice
Is this a fully-private, open source alternative to Alexa, that by definition requires a CPU locally to run ?
Is the device supposed to be the nerve center of IoT devices ?
Can it access the Wifi to do web crawls on command (music, google, etc)?
The first thought I had when encountering LLM was that it can finally make these devices understand you and make them finally useful... and I don't need to know some presceipted keywords.
While we are getting shoveled AI keyword everywhere, I'm actually disappointed I don't see it here. The first thought I had when encountering LLM was that it can finally make these devices understand you and make them finally useful... and I don't need to know some presceipted keywords.
Here's what I'm looking for in a voice assistant: - Full privacy: nothing goes to the "cloud" - Non-shitty microphones and processing: i want to be able to be heard without having to yell, repeat, or correct - No wake words: it should listen to everything, process it, and understand when it's being addressed. Since everything is private and local, this is now doable - Conversational: it should understand when I finis…
Even humans struggle with this one - that's what names are for!
Can someone describe the use case here? I don't quite understand what its purpose is. Is this a fully-private, open source alternative to Alexa, that by definition requires a CPU locally to run ? Is the device supposed to be the nerve center of IoT devices ? Can it access the Wifi to do web crawls on command (music, google, etc)?
"OK, Google, turn lights on" "Check your connection and try again"
As far as I can tell, if you have Home Assistant + this new device, you've fixed that problem.
All I want is a voice assistant that I can call "computer" like Star Trek, I don't want to have to say a brand name thankyou!
I'm actually really excited for this! I noticed recently there weren't any good open source hardware projects for voice assistants with a focus on privacy. There's another project I've been thinking about where I think the privacy aspect is Important, and figuring out a good hardware stack has been a Process. The project I want to work on isn't exactly a voice assistant, but same ultimate hardware requirements Someth…