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For those who are disabled, the prevalence of these devices can be life changing.

• drewbug01 9y ago
  All the more reason we should get behind open source, run-your-own voice assistants. We shouldn’t have to trade off privacy for accessibility!
  • xxpor 9y ago
    Sure. Let's even leave aside the whole corpus of data you need to make a even remotely useful voice assistant. But if you think there will be people willing to self host and maintain a whole voice assistant service, you're off your rocker. It's just like saying "Why doesn't everyone just use Tor and PGP?" Because it's an enormous pain in the ass and really only accessible to technical users.
    • Lionsion 9y ago
      > But if you think there will be people willing to self host and maintain a whole voice assistant service, you're off your rocker. There were probably people who said that about open source operating systems, once upon a time. Extremely complicated software is packaged down to an installer and installed by non-expert users all the time.
    • jonathankoren 9y ago
      And that’s why you use Common Voice and Deep Speech from Mozilla. https://research.mozilla.org/machine-learning/ https://research.mozilla.org/machine-learning/
    • drewbug01 9y ago
      I think you shouldn’t rush to judge the utility; consider that other people might find uses for a voice assistant that doesn’t require “a vast corpus of data” to function. But moreover, if you need to call me “off my rocker,” you’re not engaging in good faith.