[HN Gopher] Dicio: Free and open source voice assistant for Android
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       Dicio: Free and open source voice assistant for Android
        
       Author : commoner
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2022-01-01 20:43 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | dddw wrote:
       | Wow normally I find this stuff on HN first, but I installed it
       | just hours before this post finding it on fdroid. An open source
       | voice assitant is very welcome imho. If it can match the old
       | blackberry bbos10 voice assitant in usability, I'd be very
       | gratefull. My first impression was that the speech to text was
       | allright, but the interpretation of that is kinda spotty still.
        
       | betwixthewires wrote:
       | I don't see text messages/calling in the skills/features list, or
       | using any other messaging apps. Are there any particular plans to
       | build skills for these sorts of applications?
       | 
       | Also, doe sit use whichever speech engine you have installed for
       | tts? I'm interested in using this primarily because I only use
       | FOSS and up until now I've been going without a voice assistant,
       | but I do use flite tts.
        
         | david_allison wrote:
         | Apparently uses Vosk for TTS.
         | 
         | Looks like it's welcoming of external contributors, a PR is in
         | for telephone functionality. You could very likely get the
         | functionality that you need included.
         | 
         | https://github.com/Stypox/dicio-android
        
       | commoner wrote:
       | Newly added to F-Droid:
       | https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.dicio.dicio_android/
       | 
       | To choose Dicio as your default digital assistant on Android
       | (replacing Google Assistant), go to Settings > Apps &
       | notifications > Default apps > Digital assistant app > Default
       | digital assistant app. On Android 10+, this lets you activate
       | Dicio by swiping from the bottom left/right corner toward the
       | center of the screen.
        
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