Is anyone using an opensource voice assistant ?
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Hi everyone

Someone just offered me a Google Home Mini, I tried it for a few hours, and i have to tell it could be pretty useful sometimes, but for a lot of reasons including privacy, i wont use it anymore.

I heard a lot about open source voice assistant, saw a lot of projects like MyCroft, Stephanie, Linto, Jarvis but i never used it and I was wondering if some of you are using one of them daily.

Are they useful enough to be sitting on your desk ? I'm French but English recognition would be great.

Thanks for reading :)

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I use an english snips.ai to turn my lights on and off. Works amazingly, even with whole sentences. Only downside is you have to code a bit of python to react to your voice being recognized to trigger other things.

tried a bunch, never was satisfied, but never heard about this one. I will try it.

No Mycroft users out there? mycroft.ai

I think I used a Pi 2 when I tried - would I see much improvement with a newer pi?

Pi 4 is massively more powerful than its predecessors - at least, that's my impression from using Pi-based portable audio workstations.

I was just trying Rhasspy on a Pi3 and it keeps timing out because it takes so long to retrain anything. I don't have a spare Pi4

My biggest draw back for Mycroft is that they don't seem to have an easy to implement windows version and I'm honestly kinda confused on how their andriod app works.

Been using snips for you over a year to control my entire home (via home assistant). Works great.

Check out http://jasperproject.github.io/

I saw that one during my researches, but the comunity is almost dead, no big improvements in 2018.

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DW will not let me get rid of our Google Home. I unplug it every time I’m how but it gets plugged back in. Her most recent argument is ‘our phones are listening too.’ This is my next project.

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LineageOS+F-Droid No google apps needed anymore

Aurora store if you really need Google play

For those who use it: what kind of speaker/microphone do you use with it?

I want to deploy snips.ai but I am unsure how to make the rpi3 „speak and hear“.

I use Mycroft too, but use a backend... or brain for the office of kalliope: kalliope-project.githib.io

Depends what your looking for! We use various modular AI type systems that all feed in to kalliope.

I've been wanting to try Blathers for a long time.

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Hi, never heard of it before, but it doesn't seems like it can interface easily with a voice recognition software, looks like it's used more for chatting in text mode.

Thank you !

https://www.google.co.in/amp/s/www.xda-developers.com/saiy-offline-voice-assistant-open-source/amp/

Try saiy ? I tried it once and found it good

Direct link: https://www.xda-developers.com/saiy-offline-voice-assistant-open-source/

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Check out Leon, I have not used it but I've discovered it a few weeks aago and it's seems nice.

I will ! There's really to much of them, they should get together instead of trying to make their own

Well, yes but on the other hand competition bring new things. Let's hope it doesn't come to the linux distro level.

No, most of them are bad for your privacy.