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The webpage seems to be missing a list of capabilities. If you're looking for it you need to infer it from here: https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/master/pa

The webpage seems to be missing a list of capabilities. If you're looking for it you need to infer it from here: https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/master/packages https://github.com/leon-ai/leon/tree/master/packages

blowski 8y ago
Yeah, the whole page focuses on how it's built, not so much on problems it solves. From the link you posted, it seems to: * say "hello" * tell jokes * generate random numbers * download videos from a given YouTube URL * check status of a domain I can't see why any of those need AI.
- throwaway2016a 8y ago
  > I can't see why any of those need AI. The AI piece in virtual assistants usually doesn't refer to the skills themselves but the process of matching what is spoken (as audio) to a skill and passing that skill the appropriate context. Without having to have a developer program in all the hundreds of thousands of ways someone can ask for the same thing. With that said, I'm not sure how well this assistant does that. None of these skills seem to use context at all. The sentence structure to map to a skill seems relatively limited or at least not challenged by the initial skills.
- ilaksh 8y ago
  Here is the demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7GRGiicO1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7GRGiicO1c Doing speech-to-text and text-to-speech in an accurate and convincing way is extremely difficult and its cutting edge AI. A big part of what the Leon dev has done is created a way to plug in to different providers for TTS and STT. In my opinion this is quite useful because it takes care of all of the hard parts. So its a good starting point for creating your own personal assistant with the features that you think are useful. The thing that is tough though is that the open source stuff out there that you can install offline for free i.e. DeepSpeech and Flite or similar is pretty inferior to the cloud-based or proprietary stuff. However, having the provider framework is a good starting point for comparing different systems that can plug-in to fill that role. And hopefully with this packaging as a personal assistant ready for offline mode, it will bring more attention to those open source TTS and STT engines/voices/datasets that are out there and people will improve them.

blowski 8y ago

Yeah, the whole page focuses on how it's built, not so much on problems it solves. From the link you posted, it seems to: * say "hello" * tell jokes * generate random numbers * download videos from a given YouTube URL * check status of a domain I can't see why any of those need AI.

throwaway2016a 8y ago
> I can't see why any of those need AI. The AI piece in virtual assistants usually doesn't refer to the skills themselves but the process of matching what is spoken (as audio) to a skill and passing that skill the appropriate context. Without having to have a developer program in all the hundreds of thousands of ways someone can ask for the same thing. With that said, I'm not sure how well this assistant does that. None of these skills seem to use context at all. The sentence structure to map to a skill seems relatively limited or at least not challenged by the initial skills.
ilaksh 8y ago
Here is the demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7GRGiicO1c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7GRGiicO1c Doing speech-to-text and text-to-speech in an accurate and convincing way is extremely difficult and its cutting edge AI. A big part of what the Leon dev has done is created a way to plug in to different providers for TTS and STT. In my opinion this is quite useful because it takes care of all of the hard parts. So its a good starting point for creating your own personal assistant with the features that you think are useful. The thing that is tough though is that the open source stuff out there that you can install offline for free i.e. DeepSpeech and Flite or similar is pretty inferior to the cloud-based or proprietary stuff. However, having the provider framework is a good starting point for comparing different systems that can plug-in to fill that role. And hopefully with this packaging as a personal assistant ready for offline mode, it will bring more attention to those open source TTS and STT engines/voices/datasets that are out there and people will improve them.