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If you care about your privacy, you can also build your own 100% on-device Voice AI for free using https://snips.ai https://snips.ai (disclaimer: I'm a co-found

by oulipo 8y ago

If you care about your privacy, you can also build your own 100% on-device Voice AI for free using https://snips.ai https://snips.ai (disclaimer: I'm a co-founder) We are building an open-source and 100% private-by-design Voice AI platform, and you can code your first private assistant in less than 1h: https://medium.com/snips-ai/building-a-voice-controlled-home-sound-system-using-snips-and-sonos-2aaf16523ce9 https://medium.com/snips-ai/building-a-voice-controlled-home...

kingbirdy 8y ago
The platform looks interesting, but the fact that you're offering an ICO makes me immediately wary of your company.
- miketery 8y ago
  Agreed. The true crypto use case - raising money without consequences. A shitty use case, but one none the less.
- StavrosK 8y ago
  I tried Snips for a bit the other day on my Raspi 3, and it worked as advertised, detection was great, making skills was simple, and it's much better than Alexa in that you don't have to say "tell <app> to <command>", the entire namespace is immediately available. It's all that I've wanted from such a device. I do agree, however, that the ICO makes the whole thing feel scammy. It's a terrible idea, I guess they got lured in by the promise of free money and shoehorned a token into their app.
dr01d 8y ago
gah, what the heck is wrong with that woman's head on the homepage. Nightmare fuel.
- archgoon 8y ago
  That is... bizarre. It looks like they had a simple head originally and then attached it to a too large body (facing the wrong way), and then tossed some hair on it to not look like it was a sockless handpuppet coming out of the neck
- andrewthebold 8y ago
  Looks like the video got vertically squished?
StavrosK 8y ago
As I said downstream, I tried Snips and it's great, so I hope it catches on. Everything works as advertised, it sends all recognized commands to MQTT so integration with anything else is pretty much instant, and detection works well. I thought of buying the hardware to make the Snips device (to support the company financially as well), but I realized that I use my Echo mostly for Spotify (as it's a bit too crippled to use for much else), which Snips wouldn't be able to support. I still might get/build one for all the home automation I can't use the Echo for, but a big use case is immediately removed if it can't play Spotify.

by oulipo 8y ago

kingbirdy 8y ago

The platform looks interesting, but the fact that you're offering an ICO makes me immediately wary of your company.

miketery 8y ago
Agreed. The true crypto use case - raising money without consequences. A shitty use case, but one none the less.
StavrosK 8y ago
I tried Snips for a bit the other day on my Raspi 3, and it worked as advertised, detection was great, making skills was simple, and it's much better than Alexa in that you don't have to say "tell <app> to <command>", the entire namespace is immediately available. It's all that I've wanted from such a device. I do agree, however, that the ICO makes the whole thing feel scammy. It's a terrible idea, I guess they got lured in by the promise of free money and shoehorned a token into their app.

dr01d 8y ago

gah, what the heck is wrong with that woman's head on the homepage. Nightmare fuel.

archgoon 8y ago
That is... bizarre. It looks like they had a simple head originally and then attached it to a too large body (facing the wrong way), and then tossed some hair on it to not look like it was a sockless handpuppet coming out of the neck
andrewthebold 8y ago
Looks like the video got vertically squished?

StavrosK 8y ago

As I said downstream, I tried Snips and it's great, so I hope it catches on. Everything works as advertised, it sends all recognized commands to MQTT so integration with anything else is pretty much instant, and detection works well. I thought of buying the hardware to make the Snips device (to support the company financially as well), but I realized that I use my Echo mostly for Spotify (as it's a bit too crippled to use for much else), which Snips wouldn't be able to support. I still might get/build one for all the home automation I can't use the Echo for, but a big use case is immediately removed if it can't play Spotify.