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New release of Dragonfire open-source virtual assistant runs fully on local

72 points by mertyildiran 9y ago

Sir_Substance 9y ago
Ah, interesting. I've been keeping an eye on local-only desktop virtual assistants, thus far there's not really been anything even barely functional. Looks like they're not kidding about the compile time of one of the dependencies, but it looks like they've done a good job of wrapping it effortlessly into the apt system. I'll check back in after work and let you all know if it compiled successfully and if so, what kind of functionality it's got.
- Sir_Substance 9y ago
  Compilation worked on my main computer, but I couldn't get it to work on the VM I tried at work. Seems to be pretty good at voice recognition, but there's a noticeable delay while it parses my voice, maybe 3 seconds. All things considered, it's light-years ahead of any other open source voice project I've seen, but it's not there yet. It's interpreted my mechanical keyboard strokes as voice about 5 times while writing this message, so it's not there yet, but I'll certainly be leaving it installed and keeping an eye out for updates.
frik 9y ago
Interesting! Re "Local" Please add support for WikiData dumps instead of requiring internet access to Wikipedia API service: https://github.com/DragonComputer/Dragonfire/blob/master/dragonfire/omniscient.py https://github.com/DragonComputer/Dragonfire/blob/master/dra...
Hydraulix989 9y ago
This reminds me of BonziBuddy from the 90s. I've been using computers for a long time =\ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy
- m0th87 9y ago
  Somewhere on the sourceforge ether is an open source parallel of BonziBuddy that I made in middle school, because I thought virtual assistants would be the wave of the future...
  - Hydraulix989 9y ago
    Also using Microsoft Agent?
    - WorldMaker 9y ago
      RIP, Microsoft Agent It was ahead of its time, and yet it was also such an artifact of its time.
akavel 9y ago
Somewhat tangential: does anybody know if the recent advances and popularization of machine learning lead to some improvements in open-source handwriting recognition software/engines?

72 points by mertyildiran 9y ago

Ah, interesting. I've been keeping an eye on local-only desktop virtual assistants, thus far there's not really been anything even barely functional. Looks like they're not kidding about the compile time of one of the dependencies, but it looks like they've done a good job of wrapping it effortlessly into the apt system. I'll check back in after work and let you all know if it compiled successfully and if so, what kind of functionality it's got.

Sir_Substance 9y ago
Compilation worked on my main computer, but I couldn't get it to work on the VM I tried at work. Seems to be pretty good at voice recognition, but there's a noticeable delay while it parses my voice, maybe 3 seconds. All things considered, it's light-years ahead of any other open source voice project I've seen, but it's not there yet. It's interpreted my mechanical keyboard strokes as voice about 5 times while writing this message, so it's not there yet, but I'll certainly be leaving it installed and keeping an eye out for updates.

frik 9y ago

Interesting! Re "Local" Please add support for WikiData dumps instead of requiring internet access to Wikipedia API service: https://github.com/DragonComputer/Dragonfire/blob/master/dragonfire/omniscient.py https://github.com/DragonComputer/Dragonfire/blob/master/dra...

Hydraulix989 9y ago

This reminds me of BonziBuddy from the 90s. I've been using computers for a long time =\ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BonziBuddy

m0th87 9y ago
Somewhere on the sourceforge ether is an open source parallel of BonziBuddy that I made in middle school, because I thought virtual assistants would be the wave of the future...
- Hydraulix989 9y ago
  Also using Microsoft Agent?
  - WorldMaker 9y ago
    RIP, Microsoft Agent It was ahead of its time, and yet it was also such an artifact of its time.

akavel 9y ago

Somewhat tangential: does anybody know if the recent advances and popularization of machine learning lead to some improvements in open-source handwriting recognition software/engines?