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• Eliza Reanimated Published in IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

  Right before LLMs broke into the scene we had a few techniques I was aware of: * Personality Forge uses a rules-based scripting approach [0]. This is basically ELIZA extended to take advantage of modern processing power. * Rasa [1] used traditional NLP/NLU techniques and small-model ML to match intents and parse user requests. This is the same kind of tooling that Google/Alexa historically used, just without the... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• The era of open voice assistants has arrived

  Yep, Mike Hansen was on the live stream launching the new device. He also notably created Rhasspy [1], which is open-source voice assistant software for Raspberry Pi (when connected to a microphone and speaker). [1] https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Self Host personal Assistant ?

  Rhasspy seems promising and I started to tinker with it, but didn't get to a functional state before I got distracted by something else. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Alternatives to Google Assistant?

  Alternatively you could try using rhasspy under termux. Source: over 2 years ago

• Best model to convert voice commands to JSON?

  Rhasspy might have a lot of what you're looking for: Https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Consolidation advice

  There's many voice control options for HA, both private ones like Rhasspy and the corporate spyware ones that only an idiot would use. Source: over 2 years ago

• Open alternative to Google Assistant/Siri/Alexa?

  Rhasspy is amazing and more capable than Mycroft (e.g. Satellite support, something that’s mandatory imo), but even more DIY and beginner-unfriendly. That said, the docs are decent, the community is helpful. Source: over 2 years ago

• Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10B this year

  Alexa uses here: 1. Set timer 2. Convert weird US fantasy units to sane ones 3. Play music 4. Control lights 5. Weather 6. No, I don’t fucking care about the notification of some shipment I already got on my phone and my mail. Alexa devices are cheap. Seriously cheap. That is the main reason I have not replaced them with Rhasspy [0] yet. [0]: https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Reddit, what's your most "I'm with the Boomers on this" opinion?

  It's creepy and intrusive, but it is convenient. Which is why I'm "rolling my own" voice assistant with Rhasspy and Home assistant running on a Pi 4. Source: almost 3 years ago

• How to check Google -> hubitat logs?

  I use Home Assistant now, and a bunch of HA users use Rhasspy. I've never saw a need to have to bark commands at some voice control, since everything I need is automated. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Mimic 3 by Mycroft

  The Rhasspy [0] author recently got hired by mycroft to work on satelites and fully local. Rhasspy requires a lot of manual work, but replacing Alexa is already possible. I’m somewhat stuck with the current hardware availability issues, but I have a Pi 3 satellite that does wakeword detection (this is supposed to be handled by Pi Zero 2 W in the future) and sends the voice to the MQTT server running on a PI 4, the... - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Recommended Small Speakers for Multi-Room Audio?

  I'm mapping out what equipment will work best for my Home Assistant setup and I'm stuck on what speakers to get. I'm implementing a voice assistant using Rhasspy, and want some small or stealthy speakers for the replies to play from and talk to using its mic. I want to handle it all locally, so something that is suitably small like a Google Nest Mini is not an option (unless that works locally too, Mic included).... Source: over 3 years ago

• Founders Resign at Mycroft.ai

  If you want an actually offline, working, Open Source voice assistant, I'd recommend https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ I'm using it at home and it's working pretty well, I've written a few python extensions to cover all my use cases. Lmk if you have questions! - Source: Hacker News / over 3 years ago

• Is there a general purpose teachable "tone detection" sensor?

  You can try it out, setting up Rhasspy on a Raspberry Pi takes just a few minutes and it has several wake word systems builtin that you can conveniently choose from a GUI. Source: over 3 years ago

• What do you wish you could self-host?

  Rhasspy works better with HomeAssistant and is by default fully offline, unlike Mycroft which by default uses their online service. In addition, it doesn’t even support satellites (think Echo Dot vs. Full Amazon Echo) at all, so you need a full Pi4 or whatever in every room which is exactly what I don’t want and why I need the Pi Zero 2’s (the V1 is apparently a bit too slow for proper wake word detection). Source: over 3 years ago

• Home automation beginner

  I would start by looking into home assistant and open source voice assistants, like Rhasspy. Source: over 3 years ago

• Amazon Alexa Devices Take Voiceprints, Misuse Biometric Data, Says Class Action

  There is also Rhasspy. It would be straightforward to use it to control Hue lights! Check out some of the tutorial videos. Source: over 3 years ago

• Bulbs for homemade Jarvis?

  Unless you're absolutely set on doing this from scratch, then I'd check out https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ or https://mycroft.ai/ as they've already done most of the heavy lifting for you. Source: over 3 years ago

• Genie- an open source virtual assistant from Stanford OVAL that can be locally hosted

  I would suggest also checking out rhasspy: https://rhasspy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Building A Voice-Controlled Smart Home That Respects Your Privacy

  This can also be done using the Rhasspy project. It works really well, runs on a raspberry pi, and doesn’t need to connect to the cloud or anything like that. Source: about 4 years ago

• Any self hosted Alexa's or similar?

  If you're looking at something you can program yourself: Rhasspy. Source: about 4 years ago