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TIL: There is an open source "Alexa replacement" project (www.openvoiceos.org)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@programming.dev
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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*

Yeah... Even if the LLM is RAM speed constrained, simply using another device to not to interrupt it would be good.

Honestly AMD's software dev efforts are baffling. They've focused on a few on libraries precisely no-one uses, like this: https://github.com/amd/Quark

While ignoring issues holding back entire sectors (like broken flash-attention) with devs screaming about it at the top of their lungs.

Intel suffers from corporate Game of Thrones, but at least they have meaningful contributions in the open source space here, like the SYCL/AMX llama.cpp code or the OpenVINO efforts.

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