Almond VS Presbot

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

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

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

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

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

Https://presbot.com/ Lead generation focused chatbot for your website. Takes a min to setup, no conversational flow building required. Performs way better than traditional lead-capture forms by asking targeted and dynamic questions. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

Https://presbot.com/ Don’t have the time to work on it currently. Maybe someone here will find it interesting.

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Hi HN, I've been working on Presbot.com for over 2+ years now. It started as a self-learning chatbot designed to act as an interactive agent that would represent its owner in all sorts of situations. I realized that until that interaction is smooth and believable - not passing a Turing test, but closer to an actual dynamic conversation, it provides much less value, more slowly. Also, most of the responses were... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Presbot lets you create and embed rule-based chatbots in under a minute with no-code. There's no flowcharts builder or branching logic to define, just a simple form to fill and your bot is live. Give it a go and please share feedback. It's free and no cc is required. Source: over 2 years ago

Shameless plug, personal chatbot that doesn’t need ‘building’ https://presbot.com. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago