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TIL: There is an open source "Alexa replacement" project (www.openvoiceos.org)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/a_less_corporate_net@piefed.zip
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As Snowden told us, video and audio recording capabilities of your devices are NSA spying vectors. OSS/Linux is a safeguard against such capabilities. The massive datacenter investments in US will be used to classify us all into a patriotic (for Israel)/Oligarchist social credit score, and every mega tech company can increase profits through NSA cooperation, and are legally obligated to cooperate with all government orders.

Speech to text and speech automation are useful tech, though always listening state sponsored terrorists is a non-NSA targeted path for sweeping future social credit classifications of your past life.

Some small LLMs that can be used for speech to text: https://modal.com/blog/open-source-stt

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[–] 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

Either/or. They have a private cloud option that works faster and better than when its running on the low power chip on their "green" hub, but it does work. This costs some amount. It will work fine on just the local hub, but slower and more limited.

You can instead opt to install home assistant on a beefer mini pc. Something with a n150 chip or better is recommened. With it installed on that, the voice hardware apparebtly runs very well just locally.

I dont have one, I've just been looking into it recently, so take the above with a grain of salt.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    You can also use HA's voice assistant app on Android. It's servicable, but the syntax is a little too rigid. Alexa had a certain level of ambiguity where it would infer the lights in a room or a single light and do it's best. HA's like WTF are you talking about.

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