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• Mycroft – open-source voice assistant

  The key feature I haven't seen any of these opensource projects implement is microphone response coordination: If you have multiple microphones and speakers, which one responds? My google home's are terrible at this: often one in another room responds, but at least it's only one. When I tried to run Genie (https://genie.stanford.edu/) I had multiple devices responding simultaneously. It was a disaster. For me,... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Show HN: I record myself on audio 24x7 and use an AI to process the information

  It's incredibly easy to do (caveat - at least if you're familiar with software dev already). Most thermostats are literally just digital thermometers that control a relay that turns the furnace/ac on and off. A simple arduino (or much cheaper IC) can easily do the same thing if you wire it in. And then on the software side... there's several large, open-source projects that exist in this space and provide nice api... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• What's the biggest missing piece of the puzzle in the self-hosted universe?

  Because there's surely enough software available, right (i.e. susi.ai, Mycroft, Kalliope, DeepSpeech, leon, Jasper, Vosk or Genie)? Source: about 2 years ago

• Thanks I Hate Google And Alexa

  On the home assistants, it’s actually a cool solution. What they do is actually use a local ML algorithm to recognize the alert word (hey Google, Alexa, etc.) and only when they hear it do they stream the audio to their inference servers. There are things like almond which is entirely self hosted option I’d like to move to eventually. Source: about 2 years ago

• Ask HN: What is the Duck Duck Go of smart speakers?

  I think a key feature of a smart speaker is the voice assistant. The only privacy aware I know of is Almond (AKA Genie) from Stanford[1]. I don't think there is any commercial speaker using Almond out there. However, Im betting you could DIY it. [1] https://genie.stanford.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Can you override/ flash an Alexa Echo dot?

  If you want to create your own personal assistant, a Raspberry Pi or another SBC would be a much better option. Since you're having trouble with Mycroft, you could try to install a different assistant such as Genie, formerly Almond. Almond can also be installed on Home Assistant as an add-on (only available on the OS version). Source: about 2 years ago

• How I feel about Google home after years of using this eco system.

  It's Stanford and I'm excited for it. Once I graduate and have more time, I'm gonna try and get some of these running to replace google homes around the apartment. Given Google assistant on GH has become utterly garbage (have to scream at it 5 times to stop timers, every time), I'm hoping this can be better. Source: over 2 years ago

• Virtual assistant api

  Yes, there is Almond : https://almond.stanford.edu/, there are a preset of commands, but you can extend them ;). Source: over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Private Alternatives to Alexa?

  During school, our AI class had a guest lecture from Monaco Lam talking about Almond [1]. I personally don’t have much interest in virtual assistants, so I haven’t actually tried to use it, but curious to see if anyone else has heard of it of it or worked on the project. [1] https://almond.stanford.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Voice assistant

  You can use Almond. It's open source and build for privacy. It works on Home Assistant. Source: over 2 years ago