[HN Gopher] Show HN: Dexter, a Voice Controlled Assistant ___________________________________________________________________ Show HN: Dexter, a Voice Controlled Assistant Author : iamsrp Score : 37 points Date : 2021-01-10 19:12 UTC (3 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | grawprog wrote: | I have to admit, voice assistants don't interest me much, but | this looks like a pretty cool start to something that seems to be | needed and lacking in the realm of voice assistants. | | I'd like to see this gain traction and grow. Just because of the | amount of people that seem to use and like voice assistants it's | great to see some work on the open source, non-proprietary cloud | side of things. | | I also have to admit, I find most of thr current voice assistant | technology vaguely creepy knowing every command is possibly | stored and saved somewhere outside my control. The fact the | systems that do this are constantly listening for phrases and of | course the inevitable use of your data for marketing that these | services are based on. | | I understand the choices seem to be either pay for it or pay with | your privacy and data, but I still hold out the naive hope for a | technology based future focused on empowering individuals and not | service providers and large corporations, sadly it seems this | mostly comes from the open source world, which as many articles | on hn have touched on, don't tend to get the support they need or | they get picked up by large entities who take what they need and | surround them by proprietary blobs. | | Sorry this got a bit rambling, but anyway, this is a cool | project, I hope to see it grow and gain support and adoption. | livre wrote: | >I understand the choices seem to be either pay for it or pay | with your privacy and data | | Where have you seen those choices? What I've seen is either pay | with your privacy and data (Cortana for example) or pay for it | and at the same time surrender your privacy and data (Alexa, | Google Nest). | nwienert wrote: | Siri is more of a pay for it and keep the privacy/data. | grawprog wrote: | Sorry I guess I should have meant theoretical choices...at | this point there isn't much of a choice. | niels2 wrote: | Hey, you should check out Mycroft AI. | bussierem wrote: | In response to a few things in your comment: | | I was actually in the same opinion as you about remote storage | and always on wake detection, and I actually found out that | it's possible to make one without all of this! | | There are "offline wake work detector libraries" like | Snowboy.ai that prevent one of those things, and you can also | get self hosted versions of even popular language parsers like | the Azure Speech Recognition that you can run in a docker image | and have everything stored locally (or not at all!) | | Not suggesting you have to go make your own. It just makes me | hopeful for the future where we can build useful assistants | that don't need all this privacy l-destroying crap in them :) | oceliker wrote: | I wish somebody made a text-based assistant that has similar | functionality. As a non-native English speaker I don't think | voice assistants will ever become accurate enough to be usable by | me. | alexdeloy wrote: | I didn't try it out yet but Kalliope is a similar project (RPi | voice assistant) but has an API where you could input a text | order via HTTP: | | https://kalliope-project.github.io/kalliope/api/synapses/#ru... | suyash wrote: | Nice one but how is it different than so many other Raspberry Pi | based voice assistants? | HeWhoLurksLate wrote: | This is awesome! I've been looking for something like this for a | while- I'll have to try it when my Pi arrives. | Buckaroo9 wrote: | How is this different from previous voice assistant projects | designed for the raspberry pi. Projects such as: Rhaspy, Mycroft, | and Jasper? ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-01-10 23:01 UTC)